CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-16127

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-11-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
2.8 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-835

Description

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 ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location.

Affected configurations

• freedesktop accountsservice (< 0.6.55)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References