RHEL 9 : bubblewrap and flatpak (RHSA-2024:9449)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210809

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bubblewrap / flatpak.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9449 advisory.

Bubblewrap (/usr/bin/bwrap) is a core execution engine for unprivileged containers that works as a setuid binary on kernels without user namespaces.

Security Fix(es):

* flatpak: Access to files outside sandbox for apps using persistent= (--persist) (CVE-2024-42472)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL bubblewrap / flatpak packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9449.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ce0918a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9449

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210809

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9449.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-session-helper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bubblewrap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flatpak

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42472

CWE: 74

RHSA: 2024:9449