CVE-2021-21261

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21261
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-21261.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-21261
Aliases
  • GHSA-4ppf-fxf6-vxg2
Related
Published
2021-01-14T20:15:12Z
Modified
2024-10-12T06:46:14.652315Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / flatpak

Package

Name
flatpak
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flatpak?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / flatpak

Package

Name
flatpak
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flatpak?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / flatpak

Package

Name
flatpak
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flatpak?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/flatpak/flatpak

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
Events

Affected versions

0.*

0.1
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.10.2
0.11.1
0.11.2
0.11.3
0.11.4
0.11.5
0.11.6
0.11.7
0.11.8
0.11.8.1
0.11.8.2
0.11.8.3
0.2
0.2.1
0.3
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.10
0.4.11
0.4.12
0.4.13
0.4.2
0.4.2.1
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.4.9
0.5.0
0.5.1
0.5.2
0.6.0
0.6.1
0.6.10
0.6.11
0.6.12
0.6.13
0.6.14
0.6.2
0.6.3
0.6.4
0.6.5
0.6.6
0.6.7
0.6.8
0.6.9
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.9.1
0.9.10
0.9.11
0.9.12
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.9.4
0.9.5
0.9.6
0.9.7
0.9.8
0.9.9
0.9.98
0.9.98.1
0.9.98.2
0.9.99
0.99.1
0.99.2
0.99.3

1.*

1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.1.0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.3.4
1.4.0
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.6.2
1.7.1
1.7.2
1.7.3
1.8.0
1.9.1
1.9.2
1.9.3