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CVE-2021-44730

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-02-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxCanonical SnapdCanonical Ubuntu LinuxFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-59, CWE-59

References