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Low 2.5Published Sep 27, 2026
CVE-2026-96284Flatpak: flatpak: arbitrary read-access to files in the system-helper context via oci symlink following
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A malicious user can get read-access to files in the flatpak-system-helper context if a system OCI repository is configured, because the OCI code paths in the system helper follow symlinks when importing OCI images that are under the user's control.
- CVSS
- 2.5 LOW (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Sep 29, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux | 10 | CNA record |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96284vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539423issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-2fxp-43j9-pwvc
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