High
Security advisory
snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11502
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
snap-confine in snapd before 2.38 incorrectly set the ownership of a snap application to the uid and gid of the first calling user. Consequently, that user had unintended access to a private /tmp directory.
osv:CVE-2019-11502
Complete source record
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