CVE-2026-55889

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

HIGH
8.3
CVSS Score
Published: October 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM UTC
Updated: October 23, 2026 at 07:42 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXdg Desktop Portal

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Severity
HIGH8.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.3HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-330CWE-337

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