CVE-2026-6970

HIGH

authd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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

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