CVE-2026-96275
HIGHCVSS 8.8Description
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.
Timeline
Published:September 23rd, 2026 3:17 PM
Last modified:November 5th, 2026 7:17 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 8.8 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80497
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80498
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80687
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89733
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:90364
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92221
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92369
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95493
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96275
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539416
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-fqx6-vh4p-42cg
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute