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Vulnerability details: VCID-z2v6-3j7r-vkaj
Vulnerability ID VCID-z2v6-3j7r-vkaj
Aliases CVE-2023-29499
Summary Uncontrolled Resource Consumption A flaw was found in GLib. GVariant deserialization fails to validate that the input conforms to the expected format, leading to denial of service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.6
Risk 2.8
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.2 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-29499.json
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499
ssvc Track https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
epss 0.0012 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828
ssvc Track https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794
ssvc Track https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
ssvc Track https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
ssvc Track https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-29499.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-29499
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29499
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
CVE-2023-29499 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499
CVE-2023-29499 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29499
GLSA-202311-18 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
msg00030.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
ntap-20231103-0001 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
RHSA-2023:6631 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6631
RHSA-2024:2528 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2528
USN-6165-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6165-1/
USN-6165-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6165-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-29499.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29499
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211828
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2794
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00030.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-18
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-18T15:23:31Z/ Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0001/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.31095
EPSS Score 0.0012
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:51:49.236112+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/conan/glib/CVE-2023-29499.yml 38.0.0