CVE-2011-0729 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the language-selector D-Bus backend (dbus_backend/ls-dbus-backend) in Ubuntu versions prior to 0.6.7. This flaw allows local users to modify critical system configuration files, /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment, by bypassing PolicyKit access restrictions during SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv calls. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:language-selector:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0\+baz20050531CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:language-selector:0.0\+baz20050531:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0\+baz20050609CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:language-selector:0.0\+baz20050609:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0\+baz20050614CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:language-selector:0.0\+baz20050614:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0\+baz20050808CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:language-selector:0.0\+baz20050808:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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