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CVE-2026-96279

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2026-09-27 Modified: 2026-09-27

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References