8.4

CVE-2024-32462: fedoraproject fedora Argument Injection

CVSS: 8.4v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesMGASA-2024-0229SUSE-SU-2024:1535-1SUSE-SU-2024:1536-1
Published 18-04-2024Last modified 16-12-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-32462 is a high (CVSS 8.4) Argument Injection vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.4/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.51%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
SUSE-RU-2025:0145-1

Timeline

  1. 18-04-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. in versions before 1.10.9, 1.12.9, 1.14.6, and 1.15.8, a malicious or compromised Flatpak app could execute arbitrary code outside its sandbox. Normally, the `--command` argument of `flatpak run` expects to be given a command to run in the specified Flatpak app, optionally along with some arguments. However it is possible to instead pass `bwrap` arguments to `--command=`, such as `--bind`. It's possible to pass an arbitrary `commandline` to the portal interface `org.freedesktop.portal.Background.RequestBackground` from within a Flatpak app. When this is converted into a `--command` and arguments, it achieves the same effect of passing arguments directly to `bwrap`, and thus can be used for a sandbox escape. The solution is to pass the `--` argument to `bwrap`, which makes it stop processing options. This has been supported since bubblewrap 0.3.0. All supported versions of Flatpak require at least that version of bubblewrap. xdg-desktop-portal version 1.18.4 will mitigate this vulnerability by only allowing Flatpak apps to create .desktop files for commands that do not start with --. The vulnerability is patched in 1.15.8, 1.10.9, 1.12.9, and 1.14.6.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.51%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

43%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.51% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.51%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Suse29 products
  • flatpak&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1< 1.10.8-150200.4.18.1
  • flatpak&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS< 1.10.8-150200.4.18.1
  • flatpak&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS< 1.10.8-150200.4.18.1
  • flatpak&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS< 1.12.8-150400.3.6.1
  • flatpak&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS< 1.12.8-150400.3.6.1
Redhat11 products
  • flatpak< 0:1.12.9-1.el9_4 | < 0:1.12.7-3.el9_2 | < 0:1.12.9-1.el8_10 | < 0:1.10.7-2.el8_8 | < 0:1.8.5-5.el8_4 | < 0:1.8.7-2.el8_6 | < 0:1.12.5-3.el9_0 | < 0:1.6.2-7.el8_2 | < 0:1.0.9-13.el7_9
  • flatpak-builder< 0:1.0.0-13.el7_9
  • flatpak-debuginfo< 0:1.12.9-1.el9_4 | < 0:1.12.7-3.el9_2 | < 0:1.12.9-1.el8_10 | < 0:1.10.7-2.el8_8 | < 0:1.8.5-5.el8_4 | < 0:1.8.7-2.el8_6 | < 0:1.12.5-3.el9_0 | < 0:1.6.2-7.el8_2 | < 0:1.0.9-13.el7_9
  • flatpak-debugsource< 0:1.12.9-1.el9_4 | < 0:1.12.7-3.el9_2 | < 0:1.12.9-1.el8_10 | < 0:1.10.7-2.el8_8 | < 0:1.8.5-5.el8_4 | < 0:1.8.7-2.el8_6 | < 0:1.12.5-3.el9_0 | < 0:1.6.2-7.el8_2
  • flatpak-devel< 0:1.12.9-1.el9_4 | < 0:1.12.7-3.el9_2 | < 0:1.12.9-1.el8_10 | < 0:1.10.7-2.el8_8 | < 0:1.0.9-13.el7_9
Opensuse4 products
  • flatpak&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 1.14.5-150500.3.9.1
  • flatpak&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.15.8-1.1
  • xdg-desktop-portal&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 1.16.0-150500.3.6.1
  • xdg-desktop-portal&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 1.18.2-150600.4.3.1
Debian1 product
  • flatpak< 1.14.6-1 | < 1.10.8-0+deb11u2 | < 1.14.4-1+deb12u1
Fedoraproject1 product
Flatpak1 product
  • flatpak< 1.10.9 | ≥ 1.12.0, < 1.12.9 | ≥ 1.14.0, < 1.14.6 | ≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.8
Mageia1 product
  • flatpak< 1.14.6-1.mga9
Ubuntu1 product
  • flatpakAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.14.6-1

8 vendors · 49 products

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