Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pwithnall/malcontent package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PWITHNALLMALCONTENT-16699361
  • published15 May 2026
  • disclosed13 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 May 2026

CVE-2026-44931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pwithnall/malcontent.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the RecordUsage D-Bus method in the malcontent-timerd process. An attacker can exhaust available disk space by repeatedly invoking this method to write data to /var/lib/malcontent-timerd.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1