CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-44731
High (7.8). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A race condition existed in the snapd 2.54.2 snap-confine binary when preparing a private mount namespace for a snap. This could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges by bind-mounting their own contents inside the snap's private mount namespace and causing snap-confine to execute arbitrary code and hence gain privilege escalation. Fixed in snapd versions 2.54.3+18.04, 2.54.3+20.04 and 2.54.3+21.10.1
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:snapd
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170176/snap-confine-must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms-Race-Condition.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/18/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/2