What is CVE-2020-11934?

CVE-2020-11934 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Snapd, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-07-29.

How severe is CVE-2020-11934?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Canonical Snapd

CVE-2020-11934

It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. OpenURL() in usersession/userd/launcher.go would alter $XDG_DATA_DIRS to append a path to a directory contr…

EPSS: 0.004 (28.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Canonical Snapd — versions 2.45.1
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 19.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11934?: CVE-2020-11934 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Snapd, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-07-29.
How severe is CVE-2020-11934?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.