Ubuntu snap-confine Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

Ubuntu systems are at risk from a new local privilege escalation vulnerability in snap-confine, which could enable any local user to gain full root access on certain desktop installations. Qualys researchers discovered a race condition in snap-confine, the helper program utilized by snapd to prepare the runtime environment for snap applications. In the affected versions, […] The post Ubuntu snap-confine Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root appeared first on Cyber Security News.