Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42011

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 10 October 2022

Published
10 October 2022
Modified
09 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
06 October 2022
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42011 is a medium-severity Improper Validation of Array Index (CWE-129) vulnerability in Freedesktop Dbus. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash when receiving a message where an array length is…

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inconsistent with the size of the element type.

CWE(s)
CWE-129

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

freedesktop
dbus
≤ 1.12.24 · 1.13.0 — 1.14.4 · 1.15.0 — 1.15.2
fedoraproject
fedora
35, 36, 37

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References