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A malicious or compromised Flatpak repository can write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via extract_extra_data(). On system installs, the write happens as ro…

High CVSS 8.8
CVECVE-2026-96275
First seen2026-09-25 19:16 UTC
Disclosed2026-09-23 15:17 UTC
Last updated2026-09-25 19:16 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

A malicious or compromised Flatpak repository can write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via extract_extra_data(). On system installs, the write happens as root. Two issues combine: `files/extra` is resolved via path operations that follow symlinks, and blob names from `xa.extra-data-sources` are not sanitized against `..` traversal.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD