CVE-2026-44931

MEDIUM

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

Title source: cna

Description

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

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

https://security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44931

Mailing List

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/11/1

Scores

CVSS v4 5.1

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 4.5%

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (1)

gnome/malcontent 0.14

Published May 13, 2026

Tracked Since May 13, 2026