The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5191-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Flatpak incorrectly handled certain AF_UNIX sockets. An attacker could use this to     specially craft a Flatpak application that could escape sandbox confinement.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Flatpak vulnerability (USN-5191-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156055

Version 1.5