Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1842

Title: Ubuntu Language-Selector Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1842.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date May 03, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1842: dbus_backend/lsd.py in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not validate the arguments to the (1) SetSystemDefaultLangEnv and (2) SetSystemDefaultLanguageEnv functions, which allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a string argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0729.

Impacted Vendors

ubuntu 1

ubuntu_developers 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/44214 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47502 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1115-1/ http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/307975 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1032 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67255 https://launchpad.net/bugs/764397 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.6.7 http://secunia.com/advisories/44214 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47502 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1115-1/ http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/307975 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1032 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67255 https://launchpad.net/bugs/764397 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.6.7

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1842 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 03, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.