CVE-2024-5138

2024-05-3121:02:19

canonical

github.com

cve-2024-5138

snapctl

snapd

unprivileged user

privileged actions

denial of service

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

The snapctl component within snapd allows a confined snap to interact with the snapd daemon to take certain privileged actions on behalf of the snap. It was found that snapctl did not properly parse command-line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to trigger an authorised action on behalf of the snap that would normally require administrator privileges to perform. This could possibly allow an unprivileged user to perform a denial of service or similar.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:canonical:snapd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "canonical",
    "product": "snapd",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]