CVE-2026-6970

authd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation

State
Published
Severity
7.3 High
Published
Apr 27, 2026
Updated
Apr 27, 2026
Reserved
Apr 24, 2026

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.3 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Ncanonical

Weaknesses

  • CWE-842 Placement of user into incorrect group

Affected Products

ProductVersions
authdCanonical
  • 0.6.0 to before 0.6.4Affected
  • 0.6.1 to before 0.6.1ubuntu0.1Affected

References

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