CVE-2021-41133 Affecting libflatpak0 package, versions <0.10.4-150000.4.13.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBFLATPAK0-3035900
  • published29 Sept 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2022

Introduced: 27 Sep 2022

CVE-2021-41133  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libflatpak0 to version 0.10.4-150000.4.13.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libflatpak0 package and not the libflatpak0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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