CVE-2020-11934

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDGDATADIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDGDATADIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this t...

Path traversal

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDGDATADIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDGDATADIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this t...

USN-4424-1: snapd vulnerabilities

It was discovered that cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and Ubuntu Core 18 devices ran on every boot without restrictions. A physical attacker could exploit this to craft cloud-init user-data/meta-data via external media to perform arbitrary changes on the device to bypass intende...

CVE-2020-11934

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDGDATADIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDGDATADIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this t...