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Bug 817023 - sys-apps/flatpak: Sandbox escape (CVE-2021-41133)
Summary: sys-apps/flatpak: Sandbox escape (CVE-2021-41133)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 816951
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B3 [ebuild]
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Reported: 2021-10-09 05:28 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2021-10-09 09:22 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-10-09 05:28:01 UTC
CVE-2021-41133 (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/1330662f33a55e88bfe18e76de28b7922d91a999):

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.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-10-09 09:22:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 816951 ***