CVE-2019-10063

An incomplete fix for CVE-2017-5226 was found in flatpak. A sandbox bypass flaw was found in the way bubblewrap, which is used for sandboxing flatpak applications handled the TIOCSTI ioctl. A malicious flatpak application could use this flaw to inject commands into the controlled terminal of the host after the flatpak applications exits. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

This flaw can be exploited by malicious flatpak applications which include the code to exploit the wrong handling of the TIOCSTI ioctl (AV:L). No special action is needed to be performed by the attacker just having the exploit code should be enough for bypassing the sandbox restrictions (AC:L), Also the applications needs to be downloaded and run by the victim (PR:L). The flaw results in code being executed on the host system which is running the sandboxed application therefore this affects the host beyond the sandboxed application (S:C). Lastly considering the worst scenario in which the flatpak is run as root on the host system, this flaw can result in the malicious application running code as root on the host system (CIA:H).

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