CVE-2019-11502

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory.

Affected products

Canonical Ltd. snapd: before 2.38 — fixed in 2.38

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Ltd. snapd 2.38. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/7
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/bdbfeebef03245176ae0dc323392bb0522a339b1
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/7
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/bdbfeebef03245176ae0dc323392bb0522a339b1
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/4

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