Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. A bug was discovered in the `flatpak-portal` service that can allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary code on the host system (a sandbox escape). This sandbox-escape bug is present in versions from 0.11.4 and before fixed versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (`flatpak-portal`, also known by its D-Bus service name `org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak`) allows apps in a Flatpak sandbox to launch their own subprocesses in a new sandbox instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or with more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as Chromium to launch subprocesses that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself. In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service passes caller-specified environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system, and in particular to the `flatpak run` command that is used to launch the new sandbox instance. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could set environment variables that are trusted by the `flatpak run` command, and use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox. As a workaround, this vulnerability can be mitigated by preventing the `flatpak-portal` service from starting, but that mitigation will prevent many Flatpak apps from working correctly. This is fixed in versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0.
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History
21 Nov 2024, 05:47
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v3 : 7.3 |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/6d1773d2a54dde9b099043f07a2094a4f1c2f486 - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/6e5ae7a109cdfa9735ea7ccbd8cb79f9e8d3ae8b - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/aeb6a7ab0abaac4a8f4ad98b3df476d9de6b8bd4 - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/cc1401043c075268ecc652eac557ef8076b5eaba - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.8.5 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppf-fxf6-vxg2 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-21 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4830 - Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2021-01-14 20:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 05:47
NVD link : CVE-2021-21261
Mitre link : CVE-2021-21261
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-21261
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
flatpak
- flatpak
CWE
CWE-74
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')