CVE-2026-61897

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.001 · 3 %ile
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.14% (3rd) EPSS
CVSS 7.8 · high
Is it mine?
0 products
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Who says so?
— sources

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security@ubuntu.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-273US
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affected products

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

No affected products recorded.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

NVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2026-08-20modified 2026-10-18
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references (2) nvd

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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