CVE-2020-16126 (GCVE-0-2020-16126)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-11 04:10 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:15
VLAI?
Title
accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals
Summary
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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedesktop | accountsservice |
Affected:
0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3 , < 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3+esm2
(custom)
Affected: 0.6.40-2ubuntu11 , < 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.6 (custom) Affected: 0.6.45-1ubuntu1 , < 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3 (custom) Affected: 0.6.55-0ubuntu , < 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.4 (custom) Affected: 0.6.55-0ubuntu13 , < 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2 (custom) |
Date Public ?
2020-11-03 00:00
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