CVE-2020-16126: low-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop accountsservice
accountsservice drops ruid, allows unprivileged users to send it signals
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.3epss 0.5%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Freedesktop · accountsserviceRelated CVEs — Freedesktop accountsservice
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