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FKIE_CVE-2020-11934

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-07-29 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:51
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
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.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1880085Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://ubuntu.com/USN-4424-1Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://launchpad.net/bugs/1880085Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ubuntu.com/USN-4424-1Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 19.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 20.04
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