CVE-2024-5138

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: May 31, 2024
Updated: Sep 6, 2024
Reserved: May 19, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
snapdCanonical Ltd.	before 68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14Affected

References

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14patch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2065077issue-tracking
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5138issue-tracking
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/security/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46issue-tracking

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