VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-11502
snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.49%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.49% probability · 84th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- canonical/snapd
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/7Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/bdbfeebef03245176ae0dc323392bb0522a339b1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/4Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/7Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/bdbfeebef03245176ae0dc323392bb0522a339b1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/4Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.