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High · 8.3 CVE-2026-55889 EUVD-2026-108751

XDG Desktop Portal: Drag-and-drop and copy-paste theft via predictable FileTransfer key

Published Oct 23, 2026 · Updated Oct 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

XDG Desktop Portal is a desktop integration portal. Prior to version 1.22.1, malicious sandboxed applications can use the FileTransfer.RetrieveFiles method to redirect drag-and-drop and copy-paste data targeted at other applications to itself. Some portals generate tokens which provide access to resources. The sharing of the token transfers access to the resource and is supposed to happen out of band. The tokens were generated with g_random_int or g_uuid_string_random, both of which use GLib's GRand based on the Mersenne Twister PRNG which created a stream of reproducible random numbers. By generating enough tokens, the state of the GRand can be recover and with it, the next tokens can be predictedinsufin. This issue has been patched in version 1.22.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
flatpak xdg-desktop-portal < 1.22.1 —

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 14 xdg-desktop-portal 1.22.1+ds-1 —
Debian 13 xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Debian 12 xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xdg-desktop-portal No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-150500.3.13.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5098-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-150500.3.13.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5098-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-150500.3.13.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5098-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 xdg-desktop-portal +1 1.18.4-108.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3384

Advisories 2

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