CVE-2014-1420: Canonical Ubuntu-UI-Toolkit

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu-UI-Toolkit: before 1.1.1188\+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1 (fixed in 1.1.1188\+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1)

Published 2020-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.