Vigil@nce - Flatpak: privilege escalation via Read Write Runtime
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: privileged access/rights, data creation/edition.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 14/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via Read Write Runtime of
Flatpak, in order to escalate his privileges.
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