CVE-2018-13054
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.27%cinnamon - security update
Published: 7/2/2018Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13054DLA-1420-1
Description
An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be overwritten with the icon content.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/cinnamonfrom 0, < 3.8.8-1
- Debian/cinnamonfrom 0, < 2.2.16-5+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |