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CVE-2011-4406

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical accountsservice: through 0.6.14
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10

References

• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1
• http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/accountsservice/oneiric-updates/revision/21
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4406.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1351-1

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