CVE-2021-3560-exploit

CVE-2021-3560 — Polkit Privilege Escalation CVE-2021-3560 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Polkit formerly PolicyKit, the authorization framework used by Linux desktop environments. A local, unprivileged attacker can exploit a race condition in the accounts-daemon D-Bus interface ...

ptrace_may_dream

ptracemaydream CVE-2026-46333 Local privilege escalation exploit for the ptracemayaccess mm=NULL race condition in pidfdgetfd2. When a process is dying and its mm has already been released, the kernel skips the ptrace access check entirely. By racing pidfdgetfd against process exit, an unprivileg...

Polkit-CVE-2021-3560

Polkit-CVE-2021-3560 Background In early 2021 a researcher named Kevin Backhouse discovered a seven year old privilege escalation vulnerability since designated CVE-2021-3560 in the Linux polkit utility. Fortunately, different distributions of Linux and even different versions of the same...

CVE-2026-16743

The CVE-2026-16743 entry concerns accountsservice. The systemd-homed code path for SetIconFile opens a user-supplied filename as root without the validation and privilege drop done by the classic handler. A local attacker with a systemd-homed-managed account can read arbitrary files accessible to...

EUVD-2026-48570

A flaw was found in accountsservice. The systemd-homed code path for SetIconFile opens a user-supplied filename as root without the validation and privilege drop performed by the classic handler. A local attacker with a systemd-homed-managed account can read arbitrary files accessible to the...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-3560 — Polkit Privilege Escalation CVE-2021-3560 is...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Polkit_Project Polkit

CVE-2021-3560 — Polkit Privilege Escalation CVE-2021-3560 is...

CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

AZL-43453 CVE-2023-3297 affecting package accountsservice 0.6.55-4

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

Double free

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

CVE-2023-3297: Use After Free

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

SUSE CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

CVE-2023-3297

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

gdm3 is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability is in gdm3 LPE due to unresponsive accounts-daemon.this could allow a local user to create a new privileged account...

CVE-2012-2737

AccountsService

PT-2012-4225

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AccountsService versions prior to 0.6.22 Description The issue is related to the user change icon file authorized cb function in /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon, which does not properly check the UID when copying an icon file to the system cache...

CVE-2012-2737: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

The userchangeiconfileauthorizedcb 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...