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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | wine | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | wine | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | wine | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | wine | No fix yet | — |