Ubuntu 24.10 To Enhance Snap Permissions Handling

With the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release, Canonical is introducing permission prompting for more control over Snap access to systems to enhance security.

Without any Snap / binary modifications, more fine-grained access control via permission prompting is being introduced to Ubuntu 24.10. This greater Snap control relies on AppArmor and a new FLutter-based user interface for handling the access prompts. The Ubuntu Security Center can also be used for managing prompt rules and various app permissions.

Here's some screenshots from Canonical of the current state of the Security Center and the greater permission controls around Snaps:

For Ubuntu 24.10 the permissions handling is an opt-in experimental option. Moving forward Canonical plans for better integration, improved rule management summaries, covering additional Snap interfaces like camera and microphone access, and smarter client side analysis of prompts.

More details on this new permissions handling for Snaps in Ubuntu 24.10 via this Ubuntu Discourse post.