Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting flatpak-devel package, versions <0:1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-FLATPAKDEVEL-6854430
  • published16 May 2024
  • disclosed18 Apr 2024

Introduced: 18 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-32462  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 flatpak-devel to version 0:1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2538.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flatpak-devel package and not the flatpak-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. in versions before 1.10.9, 1.12.9, 1.14.6, and 1.15.8, a malicious or compromised Flatpak app could execute arbitrary code outside its sandbox. Normally, the --command argument of flatpak run expects to be given a command to run in the specified Flatpak app, optionally along with some arguments. However it is possible to instead pass bwrap arguments to --command=, such as --bind. It's possible to pass an arbitrary commandline to the portal interface org.freedesktop.portal.Background.RequestBackground from within a Flatpak app. When this is converted into a --command and arguments, it achieves the same effect of passing arguments directly to bwrap, and thus can be used for a sandbox escape. The solution is to pass the -- argument to bwrap, which makes it stop processing options. This has been supported since bubblewrap 0.3.0. All supported versions of Flatpak require at least that version of bubblewrap. xdg-desktop-portal version 1.18.4 will mitigate this vulnerability by only allowing Flatpak apps to create .desktop files for commands that do not start with --. The vulnerability is patched in 1.15.8, 1.10.9, 1.12.9, and 1.14.6.

CVSS Scores

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