CVE-2020-16126CWE-269

accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals

Low · published November 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
3.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00541 · 44.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2020-11-11T04:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 NOV 04:10Z
    accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals
    cvelistv5