CVE-2026-61898
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High [CVE-2026-61898] Arbitrary code execution via shell injection
CVE-2026-61898Source published Source updated
The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts (save-to-pam-env, update-langlist) shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in ~/.pam_environment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an attacker to inject a sed 'e' flag and arbitrary shell commands that execute with the privileges of the AccountsService helper process (real UID 0) via the SetLanguage D-Bus method. A flaw was found in accountsservice. A local attacker can exploit this by injecting arbitrary shell commands into the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in the ~/.pam_environment file. The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts process this input unescaped, leading to arbitrary code execution with root privileges via…
- Affected products in this advisory
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- Source-reported affected versions
- < 23.13.9-8ubuntu7
- 23.13.9
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
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