CVE-2026-96284

LOWCVSS 2.5

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.

Timeline

Published:September 27th, 2026 11:17 PM

Last modified:September 29th, 2026 9:29 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 2.5 (LOW)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539423
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-2fxp-43j9-pwvc

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute