5.5

CVE-2022-1804: canonical accountsservice Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-1804USN-5439-1
Published 25-03-2025Last modified 25-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-1804 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in canonical accountsservice. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.14%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 25-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pam_environment

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.14%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Canonical2 products
Ubuntu2 products
  • accountsservice< 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3
  • linux≥ 0.6.55-3ubuntu1, < 22.07.5-2ubuntu1.3

2 vendors · 4 products

References

4 links