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Snap-confine Flaw Gives Root on Ubuntu
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A high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability in snap-confine, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 with a CVSS score of 7.8, allows unprivileged users to gain root access on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. The flaw stems from a race condition during sandbox initialization that lets attackers inject malicious rules and execute arbitrary commands as root. Organizations must apply the latest snapd updates to mitigate the risk.
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