CVE-2021-44731

high

Description

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

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5080

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5292-1

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XCGHG6LJAVJJ72TMART6A7N4Z6MSTGI7/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3QTBN7LLZISXIA4KU4UKDR27Q5PXDS2U/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/18/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-17

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High