MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-96275 (CVSS 8.8)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 23, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.4%
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.
Technical details
CVSS
8.8
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:HighI:HighA:High
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