CVE-2026-41163 PUBLISHED

bubblewrap vulnerable to privilege escalation in setuid mode via ptrace

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.04.2026 Published: 09.05.2026 Updated: 09.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor containers
Product bubblewrap
Versions
  • Version >= 0.11.0, < 0.11.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE