# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-8933"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-21T14:02:19.758Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-22T18:28:05.924Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-8933"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-8933.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8933"
title: "snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup"
summary: "A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilities (rather than standard set-uid-root installations).\nDue to a flaw in how privilege boundaries or security sandboxes are initialized when the binary runs under limited ambient capabilities, a local, unprivileged attacker can exploit this behavior to bypass intended restrictions and execute arbitrary code. Successful exploitation allows the local user to elevate their privileges to full root authority."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.75.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.76.1"}],"packageName":"snapd","collectionURL":"https://github.com/canonical","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.76+ubuntu26.04.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"dpkg"}],"vendor":"Canonical","product":"Ubuntu 26.04 LTS","packageName":"snapd","collectionURL":"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/resolute","platforms":["Linux"],"defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.76+ubuntu24.04.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"dpkg"}],"vendor":"Canonical","product":"Ubuntu 24.04 LTS","packageName":"snapd","collectionURL":"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble","platforms":["Linux"],"defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.76+ubuntu22.04.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"dpkg"}],"vendor":"Canonical","product":"Ubuntu 22.04 LTS","packageName":"snapd","collectionURL":"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy","platforms":["Linux"],"defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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