HIGHUnknown

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applicat

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilities (rather than standard set-uid-root installations). Due to a flaw in how privilege boundaries or security sandboxes are initialized when the binary runs under limited ambient capabilities, a local, unp

CVE-2026-8933Published 2 weeks agoSource: Ubuntu

Affected packages

  • snapd

Exploit signal

Known exploited (CISA KEV)
No
EPSS score
0.21%
EPSS percentile
12.0%

EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs. This advisory is in the top 12%.

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