The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an uns…

published 2011-06-22 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-2516

cvss: 3.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits: 0; none known

The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.

Patch / fix

distros 1

dbus Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2533

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-2533 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 1.9

dbus: Possibility of symlink attack in /tmp during compilation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dbus Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dbus, dbus-x11, dbus-libs
affected: no fix available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 dbus
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	3.3	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2011-2533
NVD CVE-2011-2533

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Summary