🛡️ CVE-2026-44931 on Ubuntu — malcontent

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-44931 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package malcontent. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Affected software and timeline

Affected software: malcontent. Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 9 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
www.openwall.com (Report)

CVE-2026-44931 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
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
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-06-10
Modified 2026-06-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
malcontent

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