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Snap Exploit

Part of Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst Training Series Topic: Blue Team

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What you'll do

In January 2019, a local privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Ubuntu's snapd service.

  • This lab will discuss the vulnerability and show how to exploit it.
  • Snap is a package manager and software deployment platform created by Canonical.
  • It is included in Ubuntu by default in all versions since 16.04.
  • The fix is to upgrade your snapd version to 2.37.1 or higher.
  • ⏱ About 60 minutes

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