PT-2022-3233

CVE-2022-1804

Published

2022-05-24

Updated

2025-03-25

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AccountsService (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient access control in the AccountsService of the Ubuntu operating system. It may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. The problem is that accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writing .pam environment.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

Marc Deslauriers

Seth Arnold

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

CWE-264

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