CVE-2019-7304 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Canonical snapd versions prior to 2.37.1, where incorrect socket owner validation allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code for this "dirty_sock" vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.37.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:canonical:snapd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.