Summary
Tmds.DBus and Tmds.DBus.Protocol are vulnerable to malicious D-Bus peers. A peer on the same bus can spoof signals by impersonating the owner of a well-known name, exhaust system resources or cause file descriptor spillover by sending messages with an excessive number of Unix file descriptors, and crash the application by sending malformed message bodies that cause unhandled exceptions on the SynchronizationContext.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds. Users should upgrade to a patched version.
Impact
Crafted input forces the application to consume excessive CPU, memory, or other resources, degrading or denying service. Typical impact: denial of service.
CVE-2026-39959 has a CVSS score of 7.1 (High). The vector is requires local access, low privileges required, and no user interaction. A CVSS score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether this affects your application depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable in your environment. A fixed version is available (0.92.0, 0.21.3); upgrading removes the vulnerable code path.
Affected versions
Security releases
Kodem intelligence
Severity tells you how bad this could be in the worst case. It does not tell you whether you are exposed. Exploitability and impact are functions of runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A vulnerable package can sit in your dependency tree and never run.
Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter. Kodem's runtime-powered SCA identifies whether this CVE is reachable in your applications.
Remediation advice
The vulnerabilities are fixed in version 0.92.0.
For Tmds.DBus.Protocol, the fixes are also backported to 0.21.3.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is CVE-2026-39959? CVE-2026-39959 is a high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Tmds.DBus (nuget), affecting versions < 0.92.0. It is fixed in 0.92.0, 0.21.3. Crafted input forces the application to consume excessive CPU, memory, or other resources, degrading or denying service.
- How severe is CVE-2026-39959? CVE-2026-39959 has a CVSS score of 7.1 (High). This score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether it represents real risk in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable.
- Which packages are affected by CVE-2026-39959?
Tmds.DBus(nuget) (versions < 0.92.0)Tmds.DBus.Protocol(nuget) (versions < 0.21.3)
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-39959? Yes. CVE-2026-39959 is fixed in 0.92.0, 0.21.3. Upgrade to this version or later.
- Is CVE-2026-39959 exploitable, and should I be worried? Whether CVE-2026-39959 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo
- What actually determines whether CVE-2026-39959 is exploitable, and how bad it is? Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.
- How do I fix CVE-2026-39959?
- Upgrade
Tmds.DBusto 0.92.0 or later - Upgrade
Tmds.DBus.Protocolto 0.21.3 or later - Upgrade
Tmds.DBus.Protocolto 0.92.0 or later
- Upgrade