CVE-2020-16127: low-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop accountsservice
accountsservice .pam_environment infinite loop
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 2.8epss 0.4%
An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Freedesktop · accountsserviceRelated CVEs — Freedesktop accountsservice
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