CVE-2026-55889: XDG Desktop Portal: Drag-and-drop and copy-paste theft via predictable FileTransfer key

Published Oct 23, 2026
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Updated

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 grandomint or guuidstringrandom, 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 Software

1 affected component
freedesktop.org XDG Desktop Portal<1.22.1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade XDG Desktop Portal to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.22.1

Event History

Oct 23, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:35 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:35 PM
DescriptionWeakness

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