6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Romain Perier discovered that the language-selector D-Bus backend did not
correctly check for Policy Kit authorizations. A local attacker could exploit
this to inject shell commands into the system-wide locale configuration file,
leading to root privilege escalation.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector-common | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | language-selector-qt | < 0.6.7 | UNKNOWN |