Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-5138

Title: Canonical Snapd Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-5138.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date May 31, 2024

Modified Date Aug 26, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-5138: The snapctl component within snapd allows a confined snap to interact with the snapd daemon to take certain privileged actions on behalf of the snap. It was found that snapctl did not properly parse command-line arguments, allowing an unprivileged user to trigger an authorised action on behalf of the snap that would normally require administrator privileges to perform. This could possibly allow an unprivileged user to perform a denial of service or similar.

Impacted Vendors

canonical 1

snapcraft 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2065077 https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14 https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/security/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5138 https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2065077 https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/68ee9c6aa916ab87dbfd9a26030690f2cabf1e14 https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/security/advisories/GHSA-p9v8-q5m4-pf46 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5138

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity HIGH

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-5138 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

August 26, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 31, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.