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CVE-2021-4120

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4120 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting snapd versions prior to 2.54.3 across Canonical Ubuntu and Fedora distributions. It allows a malicious snap to inject arbitrary AppArmor policy rules due to insufficient validation of content interface and layout paths, enabling escape from strict snap confinement. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local vulnerability could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.54.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:snapd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
20.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
21.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugs.launchpad.net / snapd/+bug/1949368
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3QTBN7LLZISXIA4KU4UKDR27Q5PXDS2U
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XCGHG6LJAVJJ72TMART6A7N4Z6MSTGI7
ubuntu.com / security/notices/USN-5292-1
PatchVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/02/18/2
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory