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CVE-2011-1842

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-05-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2011-1842
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.44%

Original Filing — NVD Description

dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.