7.8

CVE-2026-8933

Medienbericht

snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup

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.
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Collection URLhttps://github.com/canonical
Paket snapd
Default Statusunaffected
Version 2.75.0
Version < 2.76.1
Status affected
HerstellerCanonical
Produkt Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.76+ubuntu26.04.3
Status unaffected
HerstellerCanonical
Produkt Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.76+ubuntu24.04.1
Status unaffected
HerstellerCanonical
Produkt Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.76+ubuntu22.04.1
Status unaffected
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.22% 0.121
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
Canonical 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

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https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-8933