CVE-2024-32462 Affecting flatpak-libs-debuginfo package, versions <0:1.12.9-1.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY9-FLATPAKLIBSDEBUGINFO-7416477
  • published 3 Jul 2024
  • disclosed 18 Apr 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 flatpak-libs-debuginfo to version 0:1.12.9-1.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:3959.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flatpak-libs-debuginfo package and not the flatpak-libs-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:9 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

version 3.1
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SUSE

8.4 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

8.4 high