Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting accountsservice package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-317740
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed27 Nov 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2012-6655  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 accountsservice.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream accountsservice package and not the accountsservice package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue exists AccountService 0.6.37 in the user_change_password_authorized_cb() function in user.c which could let a local users obtain encrypted passwords.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1