CVE-2011-1842
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (38th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1840)
- Published
- May 3, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1840 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
- ubuntu / language-selector
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44214(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47502(Patch)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1115-1/
- http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/307975
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1032(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67255
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/764397(Exploit, Patch)
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.6.7
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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