CVE-2026-96279 — Flatpak: flatpak: path traversal issue in oci archive extraction via hardlinks
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 discl…
Published: 2026-09-27 · CVSS: 6.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7