Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.2.2021.2294
Category:	Huawei EulerOS Local Security Checks
Title:	Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for flatpak (EulerOS-SA-2021-2294)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS 'flatpak' package(s) announced via the EulerOS-SA-2021-2294 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS 'flatpak' package(s) announced via the EulerOS-SA-2021-2294 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. A bug was discovered in the `flatpak-portal` service that can allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary code on the host system (a sandbox escape). This sandbox-escape bug is present in versions from 0.11.4 and before fixed versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0. The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (`flatpak-portal`, also known by its D-Bus service name `org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak`) allows apps in a Flatpak sandbox to launch their own subprocesses in a new sandbox instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or with more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as Chromium to launch subprocesses that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself. In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service passes caller-specified environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system, and in particular to the `flatpak run` command that is used to launch the new sandbox instance. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could set environment variables that are trusted by the `flatpak run` command, and use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox. As a workaround, this vulnerability can be mitigated by preventing the `flatpak-portal` service from starting, but that mitigation will prevent many Flatpak apps from working correctly. This is fixed in versions 1.8.5 and 1.10.0.(CVE-2021-21261) Affected Software/OS: 'flatpak' package(s) on Huawei EulerOS V2.0SP8. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-21261
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