CVE-2024-32462CWE-88

Flatpak vulnerable to a sandbox escape via RequestBackground portal due to bad argument parsing

High · published April 18, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. in versions before 1.10.9, 1.12.9, 1.14.6, and 1.15.8, a malicious or compromised Flatpak app could execute arbitrary code outside its sandbox. Normally, the `--command` argument of `flatpak run` expects to be given a command to run in the specified Flatpak app, optionally along with some arguments. However it is possible to instead pass `bwrap` arguments to `--command=`, such as `--bind`. It's possible to pass an arbitrary `commandline` to the portal interface `org.freedesktop.portal.Background.RequestBackground` from within a Flatpak app. When this is converted into a `--command` and arguments, it achieves the same effect of passing arguments directly to `bwrap`, and thus can be used for a sandbox escape. The solution is to pass the `--` argument to `bwrap`, which makes it stop processing options. This has been supported since bubblewrap 0.3.0. All supported versions of Flatpak require at least that version of bubblewrap. xdg-desktop-portal version 1.18.4 will mitigate this vulnerability by only allowing Flatpak apps to create .desktop files for commands that do not start with --. The vulnerability is patched in 1.15.8, 1.10.9, 1.12.9, and 1.14.6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00512 · 42.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Published
2024-04-18T18:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 APR 18:11Z
    Flatpak vulnerable to a sandbox escape via RequestBackground portal due to bad argument parsing
    cvelistv5