CVE-2024-5300

A flaw was found in Canonical snapd. The base AppArmor security profile configuration in snapd inadvertently allows strictly confined snap applications to bypass intended sandbox restrictions. This enables a compromised or malicious snap application, when running as root, to access sensitive syst...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-8933

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure...

New Ubuntu Desktop Vulnerability Turns Local Access Into Root Control

A vulnerability in snap-confine lets an unprivileged user gain root access on affected Ubuntu Desktop systems. Install the latest snapd update to fix the issue...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-15226

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

CVE-2024-5300

An access control bypass and information disclosure vulnerability exists in the base AppArmor security profile configuration of Canonical snapd. The abstraction rules located in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nss-systemd inherited via inadvertently permit strictly confined snap applications, which...

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...

EUVD-2026-46262

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

EUVD-2026-46261

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

CVE-2026-15226 snapd snap-confine Sandbox Confinement Bypass via Omission of setuid Restriction in Seccomp Templates

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

CVE-2026-15226

Canonically reported vulnerability CVE-2026-15226 affects Canonical snapd’s sandboxed environment (snap-confine). The issue: default seccomp templates did not filter or reject operations to create/manipulate file execution flags with set-user-id attributes, allowing a strictly confined snap to co...

CVE-2026-15226

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

EUVD-2024-55693

An access control bypass and information disclosure vulnerability exists in the base AppArmor security profile configuration of Canonical snapd. The abstraction rules located in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nss-systemd inherited via inadvertently permit strictly confined snap applications, which...

CVE-2024-5300

The CVE concerns Canonical snapd’s base AppArmor profile misconfiguration. Abstraction rules in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nss-systemd allow strictly confined snaps to access io.systemd.Multiplexer and io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch sockets in /run/systemd/userdb/, bypassing sandbox restrictions....

CVE-2024-5300 AppArmor Base Profile Misconfiguration in snapd Permits Confined Snaps Unauthorized Access to Hashed Passwords via systemd-userdbd

An access control bypass and information disclosure vulnerability exists in the base AppArmor security profile configuration of Canonical snapd. The abstraction rules located in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nss-systemd inherited via inadvertently permit strictly confined snap applications, which...

CVE-2024-5300

An access control bypass and information disclosure vulnerability exists in the base AppArmor security profile configuration of Canonical snapd. The abstraction rules located in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nss-systemd inherited via inadvertently permit strictly confined snap applications, which...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-15226

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...