CVE-2018-12268

Publication date 13 June 2018

Last updated 11 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

acccheck.pl in acccheck 0.2.1 allows Command Injection via shell metacharacters in a username or password file, as demonstrated by injection into an smbclient command line.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
acccheck	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

bruce

Repository hasn't been updated in 8 years, unlikely for upstream to release a patch.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H