CVE-2026-94422xdg-dbus-proxy: message filtering bypass via reply serial allows sandbox escape
- 8.7HighCVSS base score
- 0.50%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An incorrect implementation of message filtering in xdg-dbus-proxy versions before 0.1.9 allows an attacker to bypass the intended message filtering on the D-Bus session bus by setting a reply serial number on non-reply messages. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could use this to achieve arbitrary code execution outside its sandbox. xdg-dbus-proxy was designed to be part of the sandbox boundary for Flatpak, but it is released as a separate project and is sometimes used by other app frameworks such as Firejail.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.7.
Affected products
xdg-dbus-proxy
- affected < 0.1.9
- affected < 0.1.9
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions: affected
References
References8
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-94422 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-2cgv-pwcq-wvpq (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/commit/e5702fca4dba9600721921fbca2dbc39dc5ca400 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/commit/fc027f759316fb2a6c45648200b6f100202eb84e (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy/commit/e4465a0dfe96da3b39929a30a1ac3a22b16223e3 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542235 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/23/5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/10/msg00050.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-91646 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-94422)Record last updated .