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CVE-2024-42472VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: bubblewrap and flatpak security update

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 17:05 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 4 Sep 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 released an important security update for bubblewrap and flatpak on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Users should apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the vulnerability. No other mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

A security vulnerability (CVE-2024-42472) affects bubblewrap and flatpak on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The flaw allows applications using the persistent= (--persist) option in flatpak to access files outside their sandbox. Bubblewrap is a core execution engine for unprivileged containers that operates as a setuid binary on kernels without user namespaces. Red Hat has issued an important security update addressing this issue.

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