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high 8.8

CVE-2019-7304 in the critical feed json

Local privilege escalation via snapd socket

published 2019-04-23 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16848

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
61.1%
EPSS 61.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Canonical snapd before version 2.37.1 incorrectly performed socket owner validation, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root. This issue affects: Canonical snapd versions prior to 2.37.1.

Patch / fix

  • Canonical snapd 2.37.1
  • snapd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.37.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7304

  • snapd Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.34.2~14.04.1
  • snapd Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.34.2ubuntu0.1
  • snapd Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.34.2+18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7304

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-46362)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

61.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-46362 snapd < 2.37 (Ubuntu) - 'dirty_sock' Local Privilege Escalation (2) local, 2019-02-13
  • EDB-46361 snapd < 2.37 (Ubuntu) - 'dirty_sock' Local Privilege Escalation (1) local, 2019-02-13

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Canonical snapd

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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