Flatpak sandbox escape via spawn portal
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| flatpak | flatpak | affected |
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| Package | CPE | Advisory | Released Date |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | |||
| flatpak-0:1.0.9-10.el7_9 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 | RHSA-2021:0411 | 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | |||
| flatpak-0:1.6.2-5.el8_3 | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 | RHSA-2021:0304 | 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support | |||
| flatpak-0:1.0.9-3.el8_1 | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1 | RHSA-2021:0306 | 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support | |||
| flatpak-0:1.6.2-4.el8_2 | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2 | RHSA-2021:0307 | 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z |
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| Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD |
EUVD-2021-8642 | Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. A bug was discovered in the `flatpak-portal` service that can allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary code on the host system (a sandbox escape). This sandbox-escape bug is present in versions from 0.11.4 and before fixed versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (`flatpak-portal`, also known by its D-Bus service name `org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak`) allows apps in a Flatpak sandbox to launch their own subprocesses in a new sandbox instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or with more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as Chromium to launch subprocesses that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself. In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service passes caller-specified environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system, and in particular to the `flatpak run` command that is used to launch the new sandbox instance. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could set environment variables that are trusted by the `flatpak run` command, and use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox. As a workaround, this vulnerability can be mitigated by preventing the `flatpak-portal` service from starting, but that mitigation will prevent many Flatpak apps from working correctly. This is fixed in versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4721-1 | Flatpak vulnerability |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
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Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.595% probability within 30 days)
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