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CVE-2024-1724GHSA-4MH8-9689-38VRGO-2024-3007

snapd allows $HOME/bin symlink

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.62
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In snapd versions prior to 2.62, when using AppArmor for enforcement of sandbox permissions, snapd failed to restrict writes to the $HOME/bin path. In Ubuntu, when this path exists, it is automatically added to the users PATH. An attacker who could convince a user to install a malicious snap which used the 'home' plug could use this vulnerability to install arbitrary scripts into the users PATH which may then be run by the user outside of the expected snap sandbox and hence allow them to escape confinement.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • snapd

    fixed in 2.62

  • github.com/snapcore/snapdGo

    fixed in 2.62

  • github.com/snapcore/snapdGo

    All versions

References 3

GitHub · snapcore/snapd

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