It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-179 advisory.

    An incorrect authorization vulnerability was found in Flatpak. Flatpak does not properly validate that the     permissions displayed to the user for an app at install time match the actual permissions granted to the     app at runtime in the case that there's a null byte in the metadata file of an app. This issue allows apps     to grant themselves permissions without the user's consent. (CVE-2021-43860)

    A path traversal vulnerability was found in Flatpak. This happens when flatpak-builder applies `finish-     args` last in the build. At this point the build directory will have the full access that is specified in     the manifest, so running `flatpak build` against it will gain those permissions. (CVE-2022-21682)

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

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

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Amazon Linux 2022 : flatpak, flatpak-devel, flatpak-libs (ALAS2022-2022-179)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167016

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Version 1.2

Version 1.3 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2022, 5:56 AM New Plugin Feed: 202211050556