CVE-2012-2737

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 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: yes
Published: 2012-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon in AccountsService before 0.6.22 does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache directory, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a race condition.

Affected products

Ray Stode Accountsservice: through 0.6.21; 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3 (+17)

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=26213aa0e0d8dca5f36cc23f6942525224cbe9f5
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=27f3d93a82fde4f6c7ab54f3f008af04f93f9c69
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=4c5b12e363410e490e776e4b4a86dcce157a543d
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=bd51aa4cdac380f55d607f4ffdf2ab3c00d08721
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083359.html
http://osvdb.org/83398
http://secunia.com/advisories/49695
http://secunia.com/advisories/49759
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/28/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54223
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1485-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832532

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