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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-48831 EUVD-2026-31599GHSA-h8w5-58rh-75vr

Wine ships a .desktop file that registers itself as a MIME handler for EXE files and several other Windows executable file types. In some c…

Published May 24, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Wine ships a .desktop file that registers itself as a MIME handler for EXE files and several other Windows executable file types. In some configurations, handling of an EXE file causes that file to be blindly executed with the permissions of the invoker. This allows escaping Flatpak and Snap sandboxes, because MIME handlers are not intended for use by code interpreters and loaders. NOTE: some parties feel that this is not a bug to be addressed in Wine, because there is no known solution that avoids a severe loss of usability (Wine could be a binfmt-misc handler, but binfmt-misc does not exist on all platforms supported by Wine).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
WineHQ Wine 0.9 – ≤ 11.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 wine No fix yet —
Debian 12 wine No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 wine No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS wine No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 wine No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS wine No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS wine No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS wine No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS wine No fix yet —

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