CVE-2021-41133

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

23 Dec 2023, 10:15

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References
  • () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-12 -

07 Nov 2023, 03:38

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References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5656ONDP2MGKIJMKEC7N2NXCV27WGTC/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-4b201d15e6', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-c5a9c85737', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/ -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5656ONDP2MGKIJMKEC7N2NXCV27WGTC/ -

17 Jul 2023, 15:17

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CWE CWE-20 NVD-CWE-Other

Information

Published : 2021-10-08 14:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 18:48


NVD link : CVE-2021-41133

Mitre link : CVE-2021-41133

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-41133


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Products Affected

debian

  • debian_linux

flatpak

  • flatpak

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other CWE-20

Improper Input Validation