# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-61898"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-20T14:32:59.924Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-26T19:50:34.552Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-61898"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-61898.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61898"
title: "accountsservice: shell injection via attacker-controlled ~/.pam_environment in Ubuntu language helper scripts"
summary: "The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts (save-to-pam-env, update-langlist) shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in ~/.pam_environment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an attacker to inject a sed 'e' flag and arbitrary shell commands that execute with the privileges of the AccountsService helper process (real UID 0) via the SetLanguage D-Bus method."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"22.07.5-2ubuntu1","status":"affected","versionType":"dpkg","lessThan":"22.07.5-2ubuntu1.6"},{"version":"23.13.9-2ubuntu6","status":"affected","versionType":"dpkg","lessThan":"23.13.9-2ubuntu6.1"},{"version":"23.13.9-8ubuntu5","status":"affected","versionType":"dpkg","lessThan":"23.13.9-8ubuntu5.2"},{"version":"23.13.9-8ubuntu6","status":"affected","versionType":"dpkg","lessThan":"23.13.9-8ubuntu7"}],"vendor":"Canonical","product":"accountsservice","packageName":"accountsservice","platforms":["Ubuntu 14.04 LTS","Ubuntu 16.04 LTS","Ubuntu 18.04 LTS","Ubuntu 20.04 LTS","Ubuntu 22.04 LTS","Ubuntu 24.04 LTS","Ubuntu 26.04 LTS","Ubuntu 26.10"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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