CVE-2017-14178

HIGH

snapd <2.30 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 78.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-755
Status published

Affected Products (1)

snapcraft/snapd < 2.29.2

Timeline

Published Feb 02, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026