Directory Traversal Affecting accountsservice package, versions [,0.6.50)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-2382837
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14036  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade accountsservice to version 0.6.50 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory Traversal with ../ sequences occurs in AccountsService before 0.6.50 because of an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() in user.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1