CVE-2011-4406
canonical: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:accountsservice
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
References
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1
- http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html