{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-61897 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-61897 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical accountsservice, published on 20 Aug 2026. 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-2026-61897 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-61897 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical accountsservice, published on 20 Aug 2026. 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-2026-61897 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical accountsservice. 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-2026-61897/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-61897/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-61897","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-61897/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-61897","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8h74-384h-cv6c","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61897"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ubuntu accountsservice","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges to root because Ubuntu's accountsservice fails to fully drop root privileges when launching language helper scripts.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"canonical","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-273","name":"Improper Check for Dropped Privileges"}],"description":"An Ubuntu-specific patch to AccountsService before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts. It changes the effective UID/GID to the target user but leaves the real UID as 0 (root). A shell spawned by a helper script inherits ruid=0 and may reset its effective UID to root, enabling local privilege escalation.","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":"accountsservice: incomplete privilege drop when running Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts","id":"CVE-2026-61897","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts","id":"CVE-2026-61898"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"MZ Automation lib60870 Out-of-bounds Read","id":"CVE-2026-61893"},"products":["accountsservice"],"published":"2026-08-20","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-26","vendors":["Canonical"]},"summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges to root because Ubuntu's accountsservice fails to fully drop root privileges when launching language helper scripts.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-61897/"}