This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting freedesktop accountsservice (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-16127 | An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled ~/.pam_environment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location. | [email protected] | 2.8 | 0.41% | 2020-11-10 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16126 | An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, improperly dropped the ruid, allowing untrusted users to send signals to AccountService, thus stopping it from handling D-Bus messages in a timely fashion. | [email protected] | 3.3 | 0.54% | 2020-11-10 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2018-14036 | Directory Traversal with ../ sequences occurs in AccountsService before 0.6.50 because of an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() in user.c. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 3.09% | 2018-07-13 | 2026-06-16 |