In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the world-writable location. In the case of the "system helper" component, files deployed as part of the app are owned by root, so in the worst case they could be setuid root.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-21T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:18:02.131Z

Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9780

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-06-21T15:29:00.177

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-9780

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-06-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9780 - Bugzilla