CVE-2011-4406 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Ubuntu AccountsService package prior to version 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1. This flaw allows local users to modify arbitrary files due to improper privilege dropping when changing language settings. With a CVSS score of 3.6, it is considered low severity, requiring local access and user interaction to achieve partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.6.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:canonical:accountsservice:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.