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CVE-2026-6970

authd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation

High7.3EPSS 0.11%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
canonical

Description

authd prior to version 0.6.4 contains a logic error in primary group ID assignment that can lead to local privilege escalation. When a user's primary group ID (GID) differs from their UID, either because the account was created with authd prior to version 0.5.4 or because the primary group was manually changed via the `authctl group set-gid` command, and the user's identity provider record is updated, authd incorrectly resets the user's primary group ID to their UID upon next login. This causes newly created files and directories to be owned by the wrong group, causing denial of service issues, and potentially granting unintended access to other local users and allowing local privilege escalation.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-6970, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
canonicalCNA (assigner)4.0High7.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
NVDNVD · Deferred4.0High7.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.11% · top 99% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Canonical · authd

    • affected 0.6.0 – < 0.6.4
    • affected 0.6.1 – < 0.6.1ubuntu0.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (2)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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