CVE-2021-42762

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

BubblewrapLauncher.cpp in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.34.1 allows a limited sandbox bypass that allows a sandboxed process to trick host processes into thinking the sandboxed process is not confined by the sandbox, by abusing VFS syscalls that manipulate its filesystem namespace. The impact is limited to host services that create UNIX sockets that WebKit mounts inside its sandbox, and the sandboxed process remains otherwise confined. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2021-41133.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42762

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42762.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202110-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.34.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.34.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.34.1-1~deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2.34.1-1
debian debiansidfixed2.34.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.34.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.