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CVE-2026-41163
bubblewrap is a low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool. From version 0.11.0 to before version 0.11.2, if bubblewrap is installed in setuid mode then the user can use ptrace to attach to bubblewrap and control the unprivileged part of the sandbox setup phase. This allows the attacker to arbitrarily use the privileged operations, and in particular the "overlay mount" operation, allowing the creation of overlay mounts which is otherwise not allowed in the setuid version of bubblewrap. This issue has been patched in version 0.11.2.
What the metrics mean
- It is requires local access to the machine.
- For an attacker who can reach it, exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
- To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.0 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-05-09
- Last modified
- 2026-08-24
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/releases/tag/v0.11.2
- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/security/advisories/GHSA-xq78-7hw4-5jvp
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41163
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468439
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-41163.json