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CVE-2022-1804: Accountsservice incorrectly drops privileges

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pam_environment

Affected products

• Canonical accountsservice: before 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3 — fixed in 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 22.04

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical accountsservice 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1974250
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5439-1

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