CVE-2021-41133

CVSS V2 Medium 4.6 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-41133
  • Assigner
  • security-advisories@github.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-10-08T14:15:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-12-04T03:04:35
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.8.2
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.10.0 1.10.4
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.11.1 1.12.1
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:43:00 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 12:04:25 2021-10-08T14:15Z 2021-10-08T14:15:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 12:04:25 2021-12-04T03:04:35 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 12:04:25 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated