{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4406 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2011-4406 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Apr 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2011-4406 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2011-4406 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Apr 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4406 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4406/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4406/index.md)","id":"CVE-2011-4406","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4406/index.md","name":"CVE-2011-4406","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4406","GHSA-hg97-5vhj-mp5w"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ubuntu AccountsService","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges and modify arbitrary files due to improper privilege dropping in Ubuntu AccountsService language settings.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"canonical","cpe":[{"product":"accountsservice","vendor":"canonical"},{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"}],"cvss":{"score":3.6,"severity":"low","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-4406","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2011"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-4407"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-4405"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2014-04-16","related":[{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Use after free in AccountService","id":"CVE-2023-3297","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-09-01"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Free of static data in accountsservice","id":"CVE-2021-3939","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-11-17"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"Accountsservice incorrectly drops privileges","id":"CVE-2022-1804","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges and modify arbitrary files due to improper privilege dropping in Ubuntu AccountsService language settings.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4406/"}