CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6560
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-436
Description
In dbus-proxy/flatpak-proxy.c in Flatpak before 0.8.9, and 0.9.x and 0.10.x before 0.10.3, crafted D-Bus messages to the host can be used to break out of the sandbox, because whitespace handling in the proxy is not identical to whitespace handling in the daemon.
Affected configurations
• flatpak flatpak (< 0.8.9)
• flatpak flatpak (>= 0.9.1 <= 0.9.99)
• flatpak flatpak (>= 0.10.0 < 0.10.3)
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2766 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/52346bf187b5a7f1c0fe9075b328b7ad6abe78f6 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.10.3 Release Notes
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.9 Release Notes
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2766 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/52346bf187b5a7f1c0fe9075b328b7ad6abe78f6 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.10.3 Release Notes
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.9 Release Notes