CVE-2020-11934 vulnerability in Canonical Products
Published on July 29, 2020
Sandbox escape vulnerability via snapctl user-open (xdg-open)
It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL() in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDG_DATA_DIRS to append a path to a directory controlled by the calling snap. A malicious snap could exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions to control how the host system xdg-open script opens the URL and, for example, execute a script shipped with the snap without confinement. This issue did not affect Ubuntu Core systems. Fixed in snapd versions 2.45.1ubuntu0.2, 2.45.1+18.04.2 and 2.45.1+20.04.2.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-11934 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-11934
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Affected Versions
Canonical snapd:- Version 2.45.1 and below 2.45.1ubuntu0.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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