CVE-2024-3250

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

It was discovered that Canonical's Pebble service manager read-file API and the associated pebble pull command, before v1.10.2, allowed unprivileged local users to read files with root-equivalent permissions when Pebble was running as root. Fixes are also available as backports to v1.1.1, v1.4.2, and v1.7.4.

Affected products

Canonical Ltd. Pebble: before 1.4.1; from 1.4.2 before 1.7.3; from 1.7.4 before 1.10.2 — fixed in 1.10.2, 1.4.1, 1.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Ltd. Pebble 1.10.2, 1.4.1, 1.7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/canonical/pebble/security/advisories/GHSA-4685-2x5r-65pj
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3250
https://github.com/canonical/pebble/security/advisories/GHSA-4685-2x5r-65pj
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3250

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