CVE-2019-11503

Description

snap-confine as included in snapd before 2.39 did not guard against symlink races when performing the chdir() to the current working directory of the calling user, aka a "cwd restore permission bypass."

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/4

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VPU6APEZHAA7N2AI57OT4J2P7NKHFOLM/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VACEKVQ7UAZ32WO4ZKCFW6YOBSYJ76L/

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/6642

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3