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`.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-01-13T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T02:46:39.409Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-21682

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-13T21:15:08.690

Modified: 2023-12-23T10:15:09.173

Link: CVE-2022-21682

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-01-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-21682 - Bugzilla