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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Flatpak: flatpak: path traversal issue in oci archive extraction via hardlinks | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-59 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-09-27T19:49:17.239Z
Updated: 2026-09-28T13:56:44.250Z
Reserved: 2026-09-22T20:43:23.241Z
Link: CVE-2026-96279
Updated: 2026-09-28T13:55:50.871Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-27T20:16:53.043
Modified: 2026-09-29T21:29:07.663
Link: CVE-2026-96279
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