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CVE-2020-16126

Published: Nov 11, 2020 | Modified: Nov 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
3.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16126
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Accountsservice Freedesktop * 0.6.55 (excluding)
Accountsservice Ubuntu bionic *
Accountsservice Ubuntu devel *
Accountsservice Ubuntu focal *
Accountsservice Ubuntu groovy *
Accountsservice Ubuntu trusty *
Accountsservice Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Accountsservice Ubuntu xenial *

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