Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-0245

Title: Freedesktop Dbus Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-0245.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Feb 13, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-0245: D-Bus 1.4.x through 1.6.x before 1.6.30, 1.8.x before 1.8.16, and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not validate the source of ActivationFailure signals, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (activation failure error returned) by leveraging a race condition involving sending an ActivationFailure signal before systemd responds.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-0245 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 13, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.