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CVE-2026-15226

HIGH
8.4
CVSS 3.1
Description
A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler (snap-confine). The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or manipulating file execution flags with set-user-ID attributes. Consequently, an application running within a strictly confined snap environment can successfully compile or drop binaries and apply setuid properties to them. If a compromised or malicious process inside the snap sandbox executes these generated setuid binaries, it can potentially circumvent architectural sandboxing assumptions, drop intended restriction policies, or execute privileged actions inside the container namespace that should otherwise be strictly blocked. The vulnerability has been resolved by hardening the seccomp template engine to block the execution and creation of setuid executables by sandboxed snap processes.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-15226
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
canonical
Reserved
2026-07-09 10:14 UTC
Published
2026-07-21 14:02 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-21 14:02 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-250
CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

8.4 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products (7)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
0 < 2.76.1
Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Linux 2.61.4ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3
Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux 2.61.4ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm3
Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux 2.67.1+20.04ubuntu1~esm2
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux 2.76+ubuntu22.04.1
Canonical Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux 2.76+ubuntu24.04.1
Canonical Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux 2.76+ubuntu26.04.3
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-250 cna CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
8.4 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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