CVE-2026-6970

high

Published 2026-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-05

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

authd: Primary group ID is incorrectly set to value of UID

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/canonical/authd	`>=0.6.0,<0.6.4`	`0.6.4`
GO	github.com/canonical/authd	`>= 0.6.0, < 0.6.4`	`0.6.4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.