CVE-2018-14036: Freedesktop Accountsservice

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory Traversal with ../ sequences occurs in AccountsService before 0.6.50 because of an insufficient path check in user_change_icon_file_authorized_cb() in user.c.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Accountsservice: before 0.6.50 (fixed in 0.6.50)

Published 2018-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.