CVE-2018-14036

Summary

CVECVE-2018-14036
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-13 12:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-09-06 16:16:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory Traversal with ../ sequences occurs in AccountsService before 0.6.50 because of an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() in user.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freedesktop Accountsservice All All All All
Application Freedesktop Accountsservice All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
107085 – accountsservice: insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() MISC bugs.freedesktop.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - accountsservice: insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() MISC www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
accountsservice - D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice) MISC cgit.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Bug 1099699 – VUL-1: accountsservice: insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() MISC bugzilla.suse.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690168 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for accountservice (75aae50b-9e3c-11eb-9bc3-8c164582fbac)
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