A denial-of-service and resource exhaustion vulnerability exists within the GDBus component of GLib. The gdbusauth authentication mechanism fails to enforce proper length limitations on data lines read from a client. An unauthenticated local or remote attacker can exploit this lack of input validation by sending excessively long streams of data, causing the application to consume massive amounts of system memory and CPU, potentially leading to a crash or system hang.
CVE-2026-15588
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-20. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
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- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 40(Track)EG Risk 40/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 16.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 20, 2026
Last Modified
July 21, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 20, 2026Security report: GDBusServer pre-authentication DoS via unbounded SASL line buffering (#3985) · Issues · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/39852499675 – (CVE-2026-15588) CVE-2026-15588 GDBusServer: glib2: GDBusServer pre-authentication DoS via unbounded SASL line buffering
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499675Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15588(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | glib2-main-2.89.2-2.hum1 | 2026-07-20 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-main-2.89.1-1.1.hum1 | 2026-07-15 | redhat |
| redhat | glib2-main-2.89.1-1.2.hum1 | 2026-07-15 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(3)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 13× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-23 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 23:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 23:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-22 23:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-20 16:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-20 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-20 14:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-20 12:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-20 12:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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- CVE-2019-11478NVD 5.3EG 9.0EPSS 100%MEDIUM
- CVE-2019-10088EG 8.8EPSS 91%HIGH
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- CVE-2018-15460EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2018-0137EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2008-5180NVD 5.3EG 7.9EPSS 99%MEDIUM
- CVE-2019-10094EG 7.8HIGH
- CVE-2018-16865EG 7.8HIGH
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