CVE-2026-44931 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-44931: malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API

Vendor Gnome
Product malcontent
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published May 13, 2026
Last update May 13, 2026
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CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 13, 2026 CVE published
May 13, 2026 Record updated