USN-6940-2 snapd vulnerabilities

USN-6940-1 fixed vulnerabilities in snapd. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Neil McPhail discovered that snapd did not properly restrict writes to the /home/jslarraz/bin path in the AppArmor profile for snaps usin...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6940-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : snapd vulnerabilities (USN-6940-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6940-2 advisory. USN-6940-1 fixed vulnerabilities in snapd. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Tenable...

CVE-2024-45337

Applications and libraries which misuse connection.serverAuthenticate via callback field ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback may be susceptible to an authorization bypass. The documentation for ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback says that "A call to this function does not guarantee that the key offered is...

Fedora 37 : snapd (2022-a425aea810)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-a425aea810 advisory. Update to the latest upstream release 2.57.6. Includes fixes for CVE 2022-3328 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

The vulnerability of the snapd package management tool, related to improper validation of input data, allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the snapd package management tool is related to improper file type checking during the extraction of snap packages. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service failures...

ROS-20240910-07

A vulnerability in the snapctl component of the snapd self-contained package management utility is related to incorrect analysis of command line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to initiate an authorized action on behalf of snapd. to initiate an authorized action on behalf of snap...

GO-2024-3007 snapd failed to restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path in github.com/snapcore/snapd

snapd failed to restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path in github.com/snapcore/snapd. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners,...

GO-2024-3009 snapd failed to properly check the destination of symbolic links when extracting a snap in github.com/snapcore/snapd

snapd failed to properly check the destination of symbolic links when extracting a snap in github.com/snapcore/snapd. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. If this is causing false-positive...

GO-2024-3008 snapd failed to properly check the file type when extracting a snap in github.com/snapcore/snapd

snapd failed to properly check the file type when extracting a snap in github.com/snapcore/snapd. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. If this is causing false-positive reports from...

Incorrect Permission Assignment For Critical Resource

github.com/snapcore/snapd is vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. The vulnerability is due to the improper restriction of writes to the $HOME/bin path. An attacker can execute arbitrary scripts outside of the expected snap sandbox, potentially allowing them to esca...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6940-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-6940-1: snapd vulnerabilities

Neil McPhail discovered that snapd did not properly restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path in the AppArmor profile for snaps using the home plug. An attacker who could convince a user to install a malicious snap could use this vulnerability to escape the snap sandbox. CVE-2024-1724 Zeyad Gouda...

USN-6940-1 snapd vulnerabilities

Neil McPhail discovered that snapd did not properly restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path in the AppArmor profile for snaps using the home plug. An attacker who could convince a user to install a malicious snap could use this vulnerability to escape the snap sandbox. CVE-2024-1724 Zeyad Gouda...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : snapd vulnerabilities (USN-6940-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6940-1 advisory. Neil McPhail discovered that snapd did not properly restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path in the AppArmor profile for snaps using...

Symbolic Link Privilege Escalation

github.com/snapcore/snapd is vulnerable to Symbolic Link Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability is due improper symbolic link destinations path checks during snap extraction, which allows an attacker to cause snapd to write contents to a world-readable directory and potentially expose privileged...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

github.com/snapcore/snapd is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to improper file type checking when extracting snaps, allowing malicious snaps containing non-regular files to cause snapd to block indefinitely and result in a Denial of Service...

CVE-2024-29069

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 snap squashfs image such as icons and...

GHSA-4MH8-9689-38VR snapd failed to restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path

In snapd versions prior to 2.62, when using AppArmor for enforcement of sandbox permissions, snapd failed to restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path. In Ubuntu, when this path exists, it is automatically added to the users PATH. An attacker who could convince a user to install a malicious snap whic...

snapd failed to properly check the destination of symbolic links when extracting a snap

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 snap squashfs image such as icons and...