CVE-2026-96279
A malicious OCI registry can hardlink arbitrary host files into the extraction directory when a…
- Risk score
- 49/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.6%
- Published
- 27 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
Original description
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.
Last activity 27 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.