Vigil@nce - snapd: privilege escalation via XDG_DATA_DIRS
September 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
– Provenance: user shell.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 16/07/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via XDG_DATA_DIRS of snapd, in
order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/snapd-privilege-escalation-via-XDG-DATA-DIRS-32845