Privilege Escalation in bubblewrap (CVE-2026-41163)
Summary
Vulnerability in bubblewrap (CVE-2026-41163). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-41163 has been found in bubblewrap.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 7.0/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "bubblewrap CVE-2026-41163" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-41163 (bubblewrap) — CWE-269 / CVSS v3 7.0
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-269) exists in bubblewrap.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of bubblewrap.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.0/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'bubblewrap' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'bubblewrap' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
bubblewrapを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2026-41163 bubblewrap
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-41163
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-41163 bubblewrap Fixed in: 0.11.0-2+deb13u1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-41163 bubblewrap Fixed in: 0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory access.redhat.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- report bugzilla.redhat.com
- web github.com
- web security.access.redhat.com