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.
References
Link | Resource |
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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 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-06-21T15:00:00
Updated: 2017-11-03T18:57:01
Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-9780
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-06-21T15:29:00.177
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-9780
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CWE