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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-96279

A malicious OCI registry can hardlink arbitrary host files into the extraction directory when a user installs or updates a Flatpak application from an...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:14 flatpak

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.18.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org