Medium severity · published Jan 13, 2022
CVE-2022-21682
Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
6.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. A path traversal vulnerability affects versions of Flatpak prior to 1.12.3 and 1.10.6. flatpak-builder applies `finish-args` last in the build. At this point the build directory will have the full access that is specified in the manifest, so running `flatpak build` against it will gain those permissions. Normally this will not be done, so this is not problem. However, if `--mirror-screenshots-url` is specified, then flatpak-builder will launch `flatpak build --nofilesystem=host appstream-utils mirror-screenshots` after finalization, which can lead to issues even with the `--nofilesystem=host` protection. In normal use, the only issue is that these empty directories can be created wherever the user has write permissions. However, a malicious application could replace the `appstream-util` binary and potentially do something more hostile. This has been resolved in Flatpak 1.12.3 and 1.10.6 by changing the behaviour of `--nofilesystem=home` and `--nofilesystem=host`.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35 · source: NVD
FL
Flatpak · Flatpak
before 1.10.7; 1.11.1 before 1.12.4 · source: NVD
FL
Flatpak-builder · Flatpak
before 1.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21682
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21682
Patch
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/445bddeee657fdc8d2a0a1f0de12975400d4fc1a
Patch
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/4d11f77aa7fd3e64cfa80af89d92567ab9e8e6fa
Patch
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-8ch7-5j3h-g4fx
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APFTBYGJJVJPFVHRXUW5PII5XOAFI4KH/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IXKBERLJRYV7KXKGXOLI6IOXVBQNN4DP/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-12
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