CVE-2012-6655: Accountsservice Project Accountsservice

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue exists AccountService 0.6.37 in the user_change_password_authorized_cb() function in user.c which could let a local users obtain encrypted passwords.

Affected products

• Accountsservice Project Accountsservice: version 0.6.37 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2019-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.