AccountsService vulnerability

2012-01-3100:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

3.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 11.10

Packages

accountsservice - query and manipulate user account information

Details

Hayawardh Vijayakumar discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled
privileges when modifying the language settings on Ubuntu. A local attacker
could exploit this issue to modify arbitrary files, and possibly create a
denial of service or obtain increased privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu11.10noarchaccountsservice< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu11.10noarchgir1.2-accountsservice-1.0< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu11.10noarchlibaccountsservice-dev< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu11.10noarchlibaccountsservice0< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Ubuntu	11.10	noarch	accountsservice	< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	11.10	noarch	gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0	< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	11.10	noarch	libaccountsservice-dev	< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	11.10	noarch	libaccountsservice0	< 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN