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CVE-2026-96275 Details

Description

A malicious or compromised Flatpak repository can write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via extract_extra_data(). On system installs, the write happens as root. Two issues combine: `files/extra` is resolved via path operations that follow symlinks, and blob names from `xa.extra-data-sources` are not sanitized against `..` traversal.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96275	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539416	[email protected]
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-fqx6-vh4p-42cg	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-22	Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')	[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Sep 25, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Sep 23, 2026	New CVE Received	[email protected]