UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9780

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9780

    Published: 21 Jun 2017Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9780

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9780, https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/845, https://bugs.debian.org/865413, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9780

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: flatpak

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.1-0ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    0.8.7-5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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