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CVE-2026-96275: A malicious or compromised Flatpak repository can write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via extrac

CVE-2026-96275 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.8 · Published 2026-09-23

Executive brief

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.

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