Security advisory

{
  "id": "f33c190b461f7ac2c852d89b7818fd01799178f40d249ff5076594a9de510fe9",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14178",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-14178",
    "summary": "In snapd 2.27 through 2.29.2 the 'snap logs' command could be made to call journalctl without match arguments and therefore allow unprivileged, unauthenticated users to bypass systemd-journald's access restrictions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-14178",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-14178",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-14178"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/canonical/snapd",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "738a7f40e81151c38bc19afe838c3cfa74e5c6fa"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "3e15c2872a6e3d0ed692865de337ec44e0308f04"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:snapcraft:snapd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.27"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.29.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14178.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:50.403258009Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4194",
        "https://launchpad.net/bugs/1730255",
        "https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14178.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-14178",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379762,
  "published_at": "2018-02-02T14:29:00.34+00:00"
}