CVE-2021-44730 snapd could be made to escalate privileges and run programs as administrator

snapd 2.54.2 did not properly validate the location of the snap-confine binary. A local attacker who can hardlink this binary to another location to cause snap-confine to execute other arbitrary binaries and hence gain privilege escalation. Fixed in snapd versions 2.54.3+18.04, 2.54.3+20.04 and...

CVE-2021-44730

CVE-2021-44730 affects snapd: 2.54.2 did not validate the location of the snap-confine binary, enabling a local attacker to hardlink it elsewhere and cause snap-confine to execute arbitrary binaries, achieving privilege escalation. Affected systems may gain root/privilege escalation locally. Reme...