CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
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 information.