CVE-2018-6560

Publication date 2 February 2018

Last updated 17 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
flatpak 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H


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