Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package snapd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SNAPD-584642
  • published15 Jul 2020
  • disclosed29 Jul 2020

Introduced: 15 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-11933  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream snapd package and not the snapd package as distributed by Debian.

cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and Ubuntu Core 18 devices was run without restrictions on every boot, which a physical attacker could exploit by crafting cloud-init user-data/meta-data via external media to perform arbitrary changes on the device to bypass intended security mechanisms such as full disk encryption. This issue did not affect traditional Ubuntu systems. Fixed in snapd version 2.45.2, revision 8539 and core version 2.45.2, revision 9659.