Low severity2.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 27, 2026

CVE-2026-96284

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.

Affected products

Flatpak/Flatpakllm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96284nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-2fxp-43j9-pwvcnvd

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