CVE-2026-3888 (GCVE-0-2026-3888)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-17 14:02
Modified
2026-03-18 08:59
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-268 - Privilege chaining
Summary
Local privilege escalation in snapd on Linux allows local attackers to get root privilege by re-creating snap's private /tmp directory when systemd-tmpfiles is configured to automatically clean up this directory. This issue affects Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 24.04 LTS.
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