CVE-2026-96284

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

27/09/2026

Last modified:

27/09/2026

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&#39;s control.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.50 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

2.50

Severity 3.x

LOW

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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