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CVE-2026-96284 Details

Description

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:2.5 LOWVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96284	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539423	[email protected]
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-2fxp-43j9-pwvc	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-59	Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')	[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

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