CVE-2020-16126: accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals
Freedesktop · accountsservice
Fixed in 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2 · Affected: Freedesktop accountsservice before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 46% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Freedesktop · accountsservicefrom 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3 before 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3+esm2; from 0.6.40-2ubuntu11 before 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.6; from 0.6.45-1ubuntu1 before 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3; from 0.6.55-0ubuntu before 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4; from 0.6.55-0ubuntu13 before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Freedesktop
- Published
- November 2020
CoverageNo articles yet
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