USN-8579-1: snapd vulnerabilities

James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2024-5300 Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation affecting snap-confine (used by Canonical snapd) configured with set-capabilities. The flaw lies in how privilege boundaries/security sandboxes are initialized when running under limited ambient capabilities, allowing an unprivileged local user to bypass restrictions ...