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  • Medium 4.8

    snapd will follow archived symlinks when unpacking a filesystem

    In snapd versions prior to 2.62, snapd failed to properly check the destination of symbolic links when extracting a snap. The snap format is a squashfs file-system image and so can contain symbolic links and other file types. Various file entries within the s…

  • Medium 5.8

    snapd non-regular file indefinite blocking read

    In snapd versions prior to 2.62, snapd failed to properly check the file type when extracting a snap. The snap format is a squashfs file-system image and so can contain files that are non-regular files (such as pipes or sockets etc). Various file entries with…

  • Critical 9.3

    When generating the systemd service units for the docker snap (and other similar snaps), snapd does not specify Delegat…

  • High 8.1

    CVE-2024-5138: snapd snapctl auth bypass

    The snapctl component within snapd allows a confined snap to interact with the snapd daemon to take certain privileged actions on behalf of the snap. It was found that snapctl did not properly parse command-line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to tri…

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2022-3328 Public exploit

    snapd Race Condition vulnerability

    Race condition in snap-confine's must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms()

  • Critical 10.0

    Using the TIOCLINUX ioctl request, a malicious snap could inject contents into the input of the controlling terminal wh…

  • High 8.2

    snapd could be made to bypass intended access restrictions through snap content interfaces and layout paths

    snapd 2.54.2 fails to perform sufficient validation of snap content interface and layout paths, resulting in the ability for snaps to inject arbitrary AppArmor policy rules via malformed content interface and layout declarations and hence escape strict snap c…

  • High 7.8

    snapd could be made to escalate privileges and run programs as administrator

    snapd 2.54.2 did not properly validate the location of the snap-confine binary. A local attacker who can hardlink this binary to another location to cause snap-confine to execute other arbitrary binaries and hence gain privilege escalation. Fixed in snapd ver…

  • Low 3.8

    snapd created ~/snap with too-wide permissions

    snapd 2.54.2 and earlier created ~/snap directories in user home directories without specifying owner-only permissions. This could allow a local attacker to read information that should have been private. Fixed in snapd versions 2.54.3+18.04, 2.54.3+20.04 and…

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2021-44731 Public exploit

    snapd could be made to escalate privileges and run programs as administrator

    A race condition existed in the snapd 2.54.2 snap-confine binary when preparing a private mount namespace for a snap. This could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges by bind-mounting their own contents inside the snap's private mount namespace and c…

  • Medium 5.9

    Sandbox escape vulnerability via snapctl user-open (xdg-open)

    It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL() in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDG_DATA_DIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling…

  • High 7.3

    local snapd exploit through cloud-init

    cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and Ubuntu Core 18 devices was run without restrictions on every boot, which a physical attacker could exploit by crafting cloud-init user-data/meta-data via external media to perform arbitrary changes on the d…

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2019-7304 Public exploit EPSS 61%

    Local privilege escalation via snapd socket

    Canonical snapd before version 2.37.1 incorrectly performed socket owner validation, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root. This issue affects: Canonical snapd versions prior to 2.37.1.

  • Medium 5.7
    CVE-2019-7303 Public exploit

    Snapd seccomp filter TIOCSTI ioctl bypass

    A vulnerability in the seccomp filters of Canonical snapd before version 2.37.4 allows a strict mode snap to insert characters into a terminal on a 64-bit host. The seccomp rules were generated to match 64-bit ioctl(2) commands on a 64-bit platform; however, …