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CVE-2026-44931mediumCWE-770

malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.1epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The newly introduced RecordUsage D-Bus method https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent/-/blob/0.14.0/libmalcontent-timer/child-timer-service.c in malcontent-timerd allows arbitrary users in the system to slowly fill up disk space in /var/lib/malcontent-timerd
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
gnome · malcontent