CVE-2012-2737
LOW · CVSS 1.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2717)
- Published
- July 22, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2717 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
- ray stode / accountsservice
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=26213aa0e0d8dca5f36cc23f6942525224cbe9f5(Exploit, Patch)
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=27f3d93a82fde4f6c7ab54f3f008af04f93f9c69
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=4c5b12e363410e490e776e4b4a86dcce157a543d(Exploit, Patch)
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=bd51aa4cdac380f55d607f4ffdf2ab3c00d08721(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083359.html
- http://osvdb.org/83398
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49695(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49759(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/28/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54223
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1485-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832532
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76648
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15100967
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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