Bug 2559821 (CVE-2026-55889) - CVE-2026-55889 xdg-desktop-portal: xdg-desktop-portal: unauthorized data disclosure via predictable token generation
Summary: CVE-2026-55889 xdg-desktop-portal: xdg-desktop-portal: unauthorized data disc...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-55889
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2565123
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-10-23 13:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-02 11:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:47:06 UTC
XDG Desktop Portal is a desktop integration portal. Prior to version 1.22.1, malicious sandboxed applications can use the FileTransfer.RetrieveFiles method to redirect drag-and-drop and copy-paste data targeted at other applications to itself. Some portals generate tokens which provide access to resources. The sharing of the token transfers access to the resource and is supposed to happen out of band. The tokens were generated with g_random_int or g_uuid_string_random, both of which use GLib's GRand based on the Mersenne Twister PRNG which created a stream of reproducible random numbers. By generating enough tokens, the state of the GRand can be recover and with it, the next tokens can be predictedinsufin. This issue has been patched in version 1.22.1.


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