CVE-2026-96284

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.

CVSS Vector

References

• 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