CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14178
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
In snapd 2.27 through 2.29.2 the 'snap logs' command could be made to call journalctl without match arguments and therefore allow unprivileged, unauthenticated users to bypass systemd-journald's access restrictions.
Affected configurations
• snapcraft snapd (>= 2.27 <= 2.29.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.html Patch, Vendor Advisory