Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting flatpak package, versions <0.8.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FLATPAK-5680185
  • published21 Jun 2017
  • disclosed21 Jun 2017

Introduced: 21 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9780  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 flatpak to version 0.8.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flatpak package and not the flatpak package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the world-writable location. In the case of the "system helper" component, files deployed as part of the app are owned by root, so in the worst case they could be setuid root.