Bug 2481091 (CVE-2026-48831) - CVE-2026-48831 wine: Wine: Sandbox escape via blind execution of EXE files
Summary: CVE-2026-48831 wine: Wine: Sandbox escape via blind execution of EXE files
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48831
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2481183 2481184
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Reported: 2026-05-24 22:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-25 13:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-24 22:01:10 UTC
Wine ships a .desktop file that registers itself as a MIME handler for EXE files and several other Windows executable file types. In some configurations, handling of an EXE file causes that file to be blindly executed with the permissions of the invoker. This allows escaping Flatpak and Snap sandboxes, because MIME handlers are not intended for use by code interpreters and loaders. NOTE: some parties feel that this is not a bug to be addressed in Wine, because there is no known solution that avoids a severe loss of usability (Wine could be a binfmt-misc handler, but binfmt-misc does not exist on all platforms supported by Wine).


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