CVE-2022-1804 (GCVE-0-2022-1804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 12:28 – Updated: 2025-03-25 12:58
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Summary
accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pam_environment
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ubuntu Linux Affected: 0.6.55-3ubuntu1 , < 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3 (semver)
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Credits
Gunnar Hjalmarsson Marc Deslauriers Seth Arnold
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