Bug 2565122 - CVE-2026-55888 xdg-desktop-portal: xdg-desktop-portal: Unauthorized host file access via unvalidated FileChooser filenames [fedora-43]
Summary: CVE-2026-55888 xdg-desktop-portal: xdg-desktop-portal: Unauthorized host file...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xdg-desktop-portal
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: David King
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-55888
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Reported: 2026-11-02 11:36 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-11-02 11:36 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-11-02 11:36:35 UTC
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XDG Desktop Portal is a desktop integration portal. Prior to version 1.22.1, malicious sandboxed applications can use the FileChooser.SaveFiles method to gain arbitrary file access to non-existing files on the host (limited to files the user has access to). The FileChooser.SaveFiles method takes optional filenames which get appended to the selected directory by backends. The backends are supposed to check that the file does not exist yet. The filenames are not validated by the frontend and also not by common backends. This issue has been patched in version 1.22.1.


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