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/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-c5a9c85737', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'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'}
  • () 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

04 Dec 2021, 03:04

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References (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/26/9 - (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/26/9 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

28 Oct 2021, 23:15

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References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5DKCYRC6MFSTFCUP4DELCOUUP3SFEFX/ -

26 Oct 2021, 21:15

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References
  • (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/26/9 -

15 Oct 2021, 19:57

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References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4984 - (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4984 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/462fca2c666e0cd2b60d6d2593a7216a83047aaf - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/462fca2c666e0cd2b60d6d2593a7216a83047aaf - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/e26ac7586c392b5eb35ff4609fe232c52523b2cf - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/e26ac7586c392b5eb35ff4609fe232c52523b2cf - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/89ae9fe74c6d445bb1b3a40e568d77cf5de47e48 - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/89ae9fe74c6d445bb1b3a40e568d77cf5de47e48 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/26b12484eb8a6219b9e7aa287b298a894b2f34ca - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/26b12484eb8a6219b9e7aa287b298a894b2f34ca - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (CONFIRM) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-67h7-w3jq-vh4q - (CONFIRM) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-67h7-w3jq-vh4q - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/1330662f33a55e88bfe18e76de28b7922d91a999 - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/1330662f33a55e88bfe18e76de28b7922d91a999 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/9766ee05b1425db397d2cf23afd24c7f6146a69f - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/9766ee05b1425db397d2cf23afd24c7f6146a69f - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/4c34815784e9ffda5733225c7d95824f96375e36 - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/4c34815784e9ffda5733225c7d95824f96375e36 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5656ONDP2MGKIJMKEC7N2NXCV27WGTC/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5656ONDP2MGKIJMKEC7N2NXCV27WGTC/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/a10f52a7565c549612c92b8e736a6698a53db330 - (MISC) https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/a10f52a7565c549612c92b8e736a6698a53db330 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : 8.8
v2 : 4.6
v3 : 7.8
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:flatpak:flatpak:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

14 Oct 2021, 16:15

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References
  • (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4984 -
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 8.8

13 Oct 2021, 02:15

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References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5656ONDP2MGKIJMKEC7N2NXCV27WGTC/ -

08 Oct 2021, 15:22

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-10-08 14:15

Updated : 2023-12-23 10:15


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