Security Advisory

CVE-2026-3888

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-03-17 14:02:08
Last updated 2026-03-18 08:59:07
Assigner canonical
CVSS score 7.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

Local privilege escalation in snapd on Linux allows local attackers to get root privilege by re-creating snap's private /tmp directory when systemd-tmpfiles is configured to automatically clean up this directory. This issue affects Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 24.04 LTS.