PT-2018-17635 · Flatpak+3 · Flatpak+3

Gabriel Campana · Published 2018-02-02 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-6560

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Flatpak versions prior to 0.8.9 Flatpak versions 0.9.x Flatpak versions 0.10.x prior to 0.10.3

Description The issue allows crafted D-Bus messages to the host to be used to break out of the sandbox. This is due to differences in whitespace handling between the proxy and the daemon.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.9, update to version 0.8.9 or later. For versions 0.9.x, update to version 0.10.3 or later. For versions 0.10.x prior to 0.10.3, update to version 0.10.3 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-436

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1133

CESA-2018_2766

CVE-2018-6560

MGASA-2018-0143

RHSA-2018:2766

RHSA-2018_2766

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Flatpak

Red Hat

References · 16

• https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/52346bf187b5a7f1c0fe9075b328b7ad6abe78f6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0143.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6560 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6560 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2766 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0143 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-2766.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6560 · Security Note
• https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.9 · Note
• https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.10.3 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22562 · Note