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🛡️ OESA-2026-3000 — xdg-desktop-portal (CVE-2026-55888)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

xdg-desktop-portal security update

xdg-desktop-portal works by exposing a series of D-Bus interfaces known as portals under a well-known name (org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop) and object path (/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop). The portal interfaces include APIs for file access, opening URIs, printing and others.

Security Fix(es):

(CVE-2026-55888)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

OESA-2026-3000 is recorded against 1 package.

  • xdg-desktop-portal (fixed in 1.20.4-2.oe2403sp4)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 July 2026 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

xdg-desktop-portal has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
xdg-desktop-portal 1.20.4-2.oe2403sp4

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