CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-74859

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-08 Modified 2026-09-09 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-09-08
Last modified
2026-09-09
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

The shell theme installer in gnome-tweaks extracts user-supplied ZIP archives without validating archive member paths. As a result, a crafted theme archive can write files outside ~/.themes by using ../ path traversal, absolute paths, or symlink entries.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References