Vigil@nce - Flatpak: privilege escalation via apply_extra
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, RHEL.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 13/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via apply_extra of Flatpak, in
order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Flatpak-privilege-escalation-via-apply-extra-28491