Symlink Attack The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package snapcore/snapd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SNAPCORESNAPD-2364733
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack 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.

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