{"id":"ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462","details":"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.","modified":"2026-11-03T06:32:49.687058596Z","published":"2024-04-18T18:15:09.313Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-32462"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-32462"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.17","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r0"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.18","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r0"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.19","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r0"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.20","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.21","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.22","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.23","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}},{"package":{"name":"flatpak","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.24","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/flatpak?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.14.6-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-32462.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.2","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"}]}