CVSS 3.0
8.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-13054
High (8.1). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be overwritten with the icon content.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linuxmint:cinnamon