PT-2022-3233 · Unknown+2 · Accountsservice+2

Gunnar Hjalmarsson + 2 · Published 2022-05-24 · Updated 2025-03-25 · CVE-2022-1804

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AccountsService (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient access control in the AccountsService of the Ubuntu operating system. It may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. The problem is that accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writing .pam environment.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

AZL-66686

BDU:2022-03936

CVE-2022-1804

USN-5439-1

Affected Products

Accountsservice

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 15

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5439-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-03936 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5439-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1804 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1804 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-66686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvetracker/19876 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1904519270853116010 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/21098 · Telegram Post
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1974250 · Note
• https://community.qualys.com/vulnerability-detection-pipeline · Note
• https://twitter.com/WolfgangSesin/status/1904540374883827948 · Twitter Post