USN-4844-1

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    USN-4844-1

    Published: 15 Mar 2021Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: cinnamon vulnerability

    Details: Matthias Gerstner discovered that the cinnamon-settings-users utility in Cinnamon did not safely handle symlinks. An unprivileged attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files as root.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4844-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13054

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cinnamon

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cinnamon?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.8.6-1ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    2.6.13-1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High