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.
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References
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https://launchpad.net/bugs/1880085 | |
https://ubuntu.com/USN-4424-1 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2020-07-29T16:25:26.118479Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T04:04:04.329Z
Reserved: 2020-04-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-11934
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-07-29T17:15:12.967
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:58:56.127
Link: CVE-2020-11934
Redhat
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