CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9780
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• flatpak flatpak (<= 0.8.6)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3895 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99346 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/865413 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/845 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3895 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99346 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/865413 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/845 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory