CVE-2020-16126 Affecting accountsservice package, versions [,0.6.55)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ACCOUNTSSERVICE-2382838
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16126  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade accountsservice to version 0.6.55 or higher.

Overview

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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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