CVE-2026-15226

HIGH

snapd snap-confine Sandbox Confinement Bypass via Omission of setuid Restriction in Seccomp Templates

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler (snap-confine). The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or manipulating file execution flags with set-user-ID attributes. Consequently, an application running within a strictly confined snap environment can successfully compile or drop binaries and apply setuid properties to them. If a compromised or malicious process inside the snap sandbox executes these generated setuid binaries, it can potentially circumvent architectural sandboxing assumptions, drop intended restriction policies, or execute privileged actions inside the container namespace that should otherwise be strictly blocked. The vulnerability has been resolved by hardening the seccomp template engine to block the execution and creation of setuid executables by sandboxed snap processes.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vdb Entry, Issue Tracking vdb-entry issue-tracking
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-15226

Scores

CVSS v3 8.4
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-250
Status published
Products (6)
Canonical/Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.61.4ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3
Canonical/Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.61.4ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm3
Canonical/Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.67.1+20.04ubuntu1~esm2
Canonical/Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.76+ubuntu22.04.1
Canonical/Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.76+ubuntu24.04.1
Canonical/Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 2.76+ubuntu26.04.3
Published Jul 21, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 21, 2026