FKIE_CVE-2017-14178

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-02-02 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:05
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
In snapd 2.27 through 2.29.2 the 'snap logs' command could be made to call journalctl without match arguments and therefore allow unprivileged, unauthenticated users to bypass systemd-journald's access restrictions.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255Issue Tracking, Patch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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