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CVE-2021-44730

snapd could be made to escalate privileges and run programs as administrator PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

snapd 2.54.2 did not properly validate the location of the snap-confine binary. A local attacker who can hardlink this binary to another location to cause snap-confine to execute other arbitrary binaries and hence gain privilege escalation. Fixed in snapd versions 2.54.3+18.04, 2.54.3+20.04 and 2.54.3+21.10.1

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Canonical Ltd. / snapdaffected unspecified through 2.54.2

CWE

CWE-59

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.