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0 CVE-2026-61897 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu's accountsservice prior to version 23.13.9-8ubuntu7. The flaw arises because an Ubuntu-specific patch only partially drops privileges before launching language helper scripts, leaving the real user ID as root. This allows a shell spawned by the helper script to inherit root privileges and potentially regain full root access. The vulnerability has a high severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. Join the discussion | CVE Database V5 | 08/20/2026, 14:32:53 UTC Added: 08/20/2026, 14:38:09 UTC |
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