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SCA: security update for github.com/snapcore/snapd (GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417434

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The snapctl component within snapd allows a confined snap to interact with the snapd daemon to take
 certain privileged actions on behalf of the snap. It was found that snapctl did not properly parse
 command-line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to trigger an authorised action on behalf of the
 snap that would normally require administrator privileges to perform. This could possibly allow an
 unprivileged user to perform a denial of service or similar. (CVE-2024-5138)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417434

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5138

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5138

cwe: CWE-285