FKIE_CVE-2018-13054

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-02 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:38
Severity
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be overwritten with the icon content.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083067Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7683Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083067Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7683Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian debian_linux 8.0
linuxmint cinnamon *
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