CVE-2024-5138

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Published 2025-01-16 · Modified 2026-03-03

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`2.62-3`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.62-3`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.62-3`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/snapcore/snapd	`>=2.51.6,<2.63.1`	`2.63.1`
Go	github.com/snapcore/snapd	`<0.0.0-20240524114846-68ee9c6aa916`	`0.0.0-20240524114846-68ee9c6aa916`
Go	github.com/snapcore/snapd

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.