CVE-2026-41163

NameCVE-2026-41163
Descriptionbubblewrap 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1134704

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bubblewrap (PTS)bullseye0.4.1-3fixed
bullseye (security)0.4.1-3+deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)0.8.0-2+deb12u1fixed
trixie0.11.0-2vulnerable
forky0.11.2-1fixed
sid0.11.2-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bubblewrapsourcebullseye(not affected)
bubblewrapsourcebookworm(not affected)
bubblewrapsource(unstable)0.11.2-11134704

Notes

[trixie] - bubblewrap <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - bubblewrap <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bullseye] - bubblewrap <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Bookworm/Bullseye don't have the --overlay feature, so there's no security impact

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