Red Hat Security Advisory: bubblewrap and flatpak security update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 17:05 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Sep 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has published security updates for bubblewrap and flatpak in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Users should apply these official updates as detailed in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:6355 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided patches.
Description
A security vulnerability (CVE-2024-42472) affecting bubblewrap and flatpak on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support allows applications using the persistent= (--persist) option to access files outside their sandbox. Bubblewrap is a setuid binary used for unprivileged container execution on kernels without user namespaces. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates to address this issue.