Accountsservice vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product11 versions
The short answer

Accountsservice is made by Canonical. We track 4 published vulnerabilities in it, across 11 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Accountsservice, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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None of Accountsservice's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Accountsservice flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 0.4%

    The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

    CVSS3.6Published16 Apr 2014
  2. 0.3%

    Ubuntu-specific modifications to accountsservice (in patch file debian/patches/0010-set-language.patch) caused the fallback_locale variable, pointing to static storage, to be freed, in the...

    CVSS7.8Published17 Nov 2021
  3. 0.3%

    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.

    CVSS7.8Published1 Sep 2023
  4. 0.1%

    accountsservice no longer drops permissions when writting .pam_environment

    CVSS5.5Published25 Mar 2025
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We track 4 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Accountsservice, across 11 versions.

None of Accountsservice's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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