CVE-2026-96284

low

EUVD alias: EUVD-2026-88046

Assigned by CNA: redhat

Published 2026-09-27 · Modified 2026-09-27

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CVSS v3

2.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

27%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.16.6-1~deb13u1`
sid	Fixed	`1.16.4-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.16.4-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.14.10-1~deb12u2`

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.