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CVE-2021-44731

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

Description

A race condition existed in the snapd 2.54.2 snap-confine binary when preparing a private mount namespace for a snap. This could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges by bind-mounting their own contents inside the snap's private mount namespace and causing snap-confine to execute arbitrary code 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-362, CWE-362

References