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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-6970 EUVD-2026-25871GHSA-fg3j-5w9g-hmg7GO-2026-5361

authd Denial of Service and Local Privilege Escalation

Published Apr 27, 2026 · Updated Apr 27, 2026 · Assigned by canonical

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Canonical authd 0.6.0 – < 0.6.4, 0.6.1 – < 0.6.1ubuntu0.1 0.6.4

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS authd 0.6.1ubuntu0.1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/canonical/authd >= 0.6.0, < 0.6.4 0.6.4 GHSA-fg3j-5w9g-hmg7

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