No Limit on Number of Open Sessions / Bad Session Close Behaviour in dnf5daemon-server before 5.1.17 allows a malicious user to impact Availability via No Limit on Number of Open Sessions. There is no limit on how many sessions D-Bus clients may create using the `open_session()` D-Bus method. For each session a thread is created in dnf5daemon-server. This spends a couple of hundred megabytes of memory in the process. Further connections will become impossible, likely because no more threads can be spawned by the D-Bus service.
History

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Rpm-software-management
Rpm-software-management dnf5
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:rpm-software-management:dnf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Rpm-software-management
Rpm-software-management dnf5

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2024-05-08T01:52:54.938Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.475Z

Reserved: 2024-02-27T12:44:59.949Z

Link: CVE-2024-1930

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.475Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-08T02:15:09.503

Modified: 2025-08-07T17:21:11.740

Link: CVE-2024-1930

cve-icon Redhat

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