🛡️ GHSA-jrr7-64m9-x984 — snapd (CVE-2024-5138)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: CVE-2024-5138: snapd snapctl auth bypass

# Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

# Original Description

The snapctl component within snapd allows a confined snap to interact with the snapd daemon to take certain privileged actions on behalf of the snap. It was found that snapctl did not properly parse command-line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to trigger an authorised action on behalf of the snap that would normally require administrator privileges to perform. This could possibly allow an unprivileged user to perform a denial of service or similar.

Affected software

GHSA-jrr7-64m9-x984 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/snapcore/snapd

Timeline and source

Published on 31 May 2024 and last revised on 16 January 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
www.cve.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-05-31
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-01-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/snapcore/snapd

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