CVE-2026-96284

low

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.

References

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-2fxp-43j9-pwvc

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-88046

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539423

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96284

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00143