CVE-2026-41163
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.27% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/releases/tag/v0.11.2
- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/security/advisories/GHSA-xq78-7hw4-5jvp
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41163
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468439
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-41163.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.