A newly disclosed local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu’s snap-confine component allows any unprivileged local user to obtain full root access on default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04. Tracked as CVE-2026-8933, the flaw was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) and carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High). The vulnerability […]
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