CVE-2026-6970
HIGHauthd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://github.com/canonical/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-fg3j-5w9g-hmg7
Scores
CVSS v4
7.3
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
3.0%
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-842
Status
published
Products (3)
Canonical/authd
0.6.0 - 0.6.4
canonical/authd
0.6.0 - 0.6.4Go
Canonical/authd
0.6.1 - 0.6.1ubuntu0.1
Published
Apr 27, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 27, 2026