CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-3297
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• canonical accountsservice (< 23.13.9-2ubuntu2)
• canonical accountsservice (< 22.08.8-1ubuntu7.1)
• canonical accountsservice (< 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.4)
• canonical accountsservice (< 0.6.55-0ubuntu12\~20.04.6)
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 22.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 22.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 23.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/2024182 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3297 Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-139_accountsservice/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6190-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/2024182 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3297 Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-139_accountsservice/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6190-1 Vendor Advisory