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CVE-2017-14178

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-755

Description

In snapd 2.27 through 2.29.2 the 'snap logs' command could be made to call journalctl without match arguments and therefore allow unprivileged, unauthenticated users to bypass systemd-journald's access restrictions.

Affected products

• snapd: from 2.27 through 2.29.2

References

• https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.html
• https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.html

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