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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-96275
A malicious or compromised Flatpak repository can write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via extract_extra_da...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
flatpak
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13
flatpak
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.16.6-1~deb13u2"}]}]
Debian:14
flatpak
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.18.1-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org