{"id":"USN-4424-1","summary":"snapd vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and\nUbuntu Core 18 devices ran on every boot without restrictions. A physical\nattacker could exploit this to craft cloud-init user-data/meta-data via\nexternal media to perform arbitrary changes on the device to bypass\nintended security mechanisms such as full disk encryption. This issue did\nnot affect traditional Ubuntu systems. (CVE-2020-11933)\n\nIt was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the XDG_DATA_DIRS \nenvironment variable when calling the system xdg-open. A malicious snap \ncould exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions to control how\nthe host system xdg-open script opens the URL. This issue did not affect \nUbuntu Core systems. 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