CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-13601
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-29
- Last modified
- 2026-08-20
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-693
Description
A flaw was found in Yelp due to an overly permissive Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation provided by yelp-xsl. A malicious Flatpak application can open crafted help content through the OpenURI portal. By embedding an untrusted CSS stylesheet within a structured SVG document, attacker-controlled content can bypass Flatpak's intended sandbox isolation, allowing Yelp to evaluate local XML inclusions and disclose arbitrary user-readable host files through remote CSS resource requests. This may result in the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• gnome yelp (< 49.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47177 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47178 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54539 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54540 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54605 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54624 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54637 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54666 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57417 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13601 Vendor Advisory
- https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/05/11/flatpak-sandbox-escape-via-yelp/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2494110 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/commit/c8c8244c8a812860782d635890c9b6c43ecc2639 Patch
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/work_items/238 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47177 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47178 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54539 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54540 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54605 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54624 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54637 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54666 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57417 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13601 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2494110 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-13601.json Vendor Advisory