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2 vulnerabilities found for malcontent by gnome
CVE-2026-44931 (GCVE-0-2026-44931)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-05-13 08:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 10:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API
Summary
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
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnome | malcontent |
Affected:
0.14 , < unknown
(custom)
|
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CVE-2026-44931 (GCVE-0-2026-44931)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 08:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 10:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API
Summary
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
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnome | malcontent |
Affected:
0.14 , < unknown
(custom)
|
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