vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-11503): snapd vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 24, 2019
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

snap-confine as included in snapd before 2.39 did not guard against symlink races when performing the chdir() to the current working directory of the calling user, aka a "cwd restore permission bypass."

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-snapd
Title
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