CVE-2026-96279

MEDIUM
6.5CVSS v3
—CVSS v2
0.63% EPSS (exploit probability)
CWE-59CWE

Description

A malicious OCI registry can hardlink arbitrary host files into the extraction directory when a user installs or updates a Flatpak application from an OCI remote, allowing disclosure of arbitrary host file contents. For system-wide installs running as root, this includes sensitive files such as /etc/shadow.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected routers (0)

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