CVE-2023-3297

Publication date 28 June 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Ubuntu's accountsservice an unprivileged local attacker can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in accountsservice by sending a D-Bus message to the accounts-daemon process.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
accountsservice	23.10 mantic	Fixed 23.13.9-2ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 22.08.8-1ubuntu7.1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 22.08.8-1ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.6
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.6.40-2ubuntu11.6+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.3+esm3

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Notes

mdeslaur

This is GHSL-2023-139 Issue is in the Ubuntu-specific 0010-set-language.patch patch.

eslerm

CWE-416

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H