CVE-2026-61898

A flaw was found in accountsservice. A local attacker can exploit this by injecting arbitrary shell commands into the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in the /.pamenvironment file. The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts process this input unescaped, leading to arbitrary code execution with roo...

CVE-2026-61898 accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898 accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

CVE-2026-61898: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...

EUVD-2022-25083

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2022-1804

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

CVE-2022-1804

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

CVE-2022-1804

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

CVE-2022-1804 Accountsservice incorrectly drops privileges

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

CVE-2022-1804: Improper Privilege Management

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

Privilege Escalation

accountsservice is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists because the library does not check permission whet writes to .pamenvironment...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1804

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pamenvironment...

CVE-2020-16127

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

CVE-2020-16127 accountsservice .pam_environment infinite loop

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

CVE-2020-16127: Improper Input Validation

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSH vulnerability (K20911042)

The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain privileges by triggering a crafted environment for the /bin/login program, as...

Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerability

The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain privileges by triggering a crafted environment for the /bin/login program, as...

CVE-2015-8325

The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain privileges by triggering a crafted environment for the /bin/login program, as...

CVE-2015-8325

The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain privileges by triggering a crafted environment for the /bin/login program, as...

CVE-2011-3148

Stack-based buffer overflow in the assembleline function in modules/pamenv/pamenv.c in Linux-PAM aka pam before 1.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string of white spaces at the beginning of the /.pamenvironment file...