FKIE_CVE-2024-5138

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-31 21:15 - Updated: 2025-08-26 17:21
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
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 trigger an authorised action on behalf of the snap that would normally require administrator privileges to perform. This could possibly allow an unprivileged user to perform a denial of service or similar.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2065077Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14Patch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/snapcore/snapd/security/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5138Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2065077Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/security/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5138Third Party Advisory
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