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Permalink CVE-2026-61897
7.8 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 3 weeks, 3 days ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 weeks, 3 days ago
accountsservice: incomplete privilege drop when running Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts

An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 (root). A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its effective UID to root, enabling local privilege escalation.

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Affected products

accountsservice
  • <22.07.5-2ubuntu1.6
  • <23.13.9-8ubuntu5.2
  • <23.13.9-2ubuntu6.1
  • <23.13.9-8ubuntu7

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Untriaged
Permalink CVE-2026-61898
7.8 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 3 weeks, 3 days ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 weeks, 3 days ago
accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts (save-to-pam-env, update-langlist) shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in ~/.pam_environment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an attacker to inject a sed 'e' flag and arbitrary shell commands that execute with the privileges of the AccountsService helper process (real UID 0) via the SetLanguage D-Bus method.

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Affected products

accountsservice
  • <23.13.9-2ubuntu6.1
  • <23.13.9-8ubuntu5.2
  • <22.07.5-2ubuntu1.6
  • <23.13.9-8ubuntu7

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Published
Permalink CVE-2026-16743
5.5 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  • @LeSuisse accepted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Accountsservice: accountsservice: arbitrary file read via seticonfile for systemd-homed users

A flaw was found in accountsservice. The systemd-homed code path for SetIconFile opens a user-supplied filename as root without the validation and privilege drop performed by the classic handler. A local attacker with a systemd-homed-managed account can read arbitrary files accessible to the accounts-daemon process.

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accountsservice

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Fixed in 26.26.9

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/work_items/138#note_3536647