Sandbox bypass via recent VFS-manipulating syscalls
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-0:1.0.9-12.el7_9 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 | RHSA-2021:4044 | 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | |||
| flatpak-0:1.8.5-4.el8_4 | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 | RHSA-2021:4042 | 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support | |||
| flatpak-0:1.0.9-5.el8_1 | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1 | RHSA-2021:4106 | 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support | |||
| flatpak-0:1.6.2-6.el8_2 | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2 | RHSA-2021:4107 | 2021-11-02T00:00:00Z |
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| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DSA |
DSA-4984-1 | flatpak security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2021-28254 | Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. In versions prior to 1.10.4 and 1.12.0, Flatpak apps with direct access to AF_UNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can trick portals and other host-OS services into treating the Flatpak app as though it was an ordinary, non-sandboxed host-OS process. They can do this by manipulating the VFS using recent mount-related syscalls that are not blocked by Flatpak's denylist seccomp filter, in order to substitute a crafted `/.flatpak-info` or make that file disappear entirely. Flatpak apps that act as clients for AF_UNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can escalate the privileges that the corresponding services will believe the Flatpak app has. Note that protocols that operate entirely over the D-Bus session bus (user bus), system bus or accessibility bus are not affected by this. This is due to the use of a proxy process `xdg-dbus-proxy`, whose VFS cannot be manipulated by the Flatpak app, when interacting with these buses. Patches exist for versions 1.10.4 and 1.12.0, and as of time of publication, a patch for version 1.8.2 is being planned. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading to a patched version. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-5191-1 | Flatpak vulnerability |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.436% probability within 30 days)
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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