RHSA-2021:1068: Red Hat Security Advisory: flatpak security update

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Security Fix(es):

• flatpak: “file forwarding” feature can be used to gain unprivileged access to files (CVE-2021-21381) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2021-21381: flatpak: “file forwarding” feature can be used to gain unprivileged access to files