CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97023
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-61
Description
A path traversal vulnerability in Flatpak's handling of the export/bin directory during app deployment allows a malicious Flatpak app to cause deletion of attacker-chosen files outside the deployment directory when the app is installed or upgraded. In system-wide installations, the deletion is performed as root.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89849 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89850 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89859 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97023 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542606 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-5p67-xh8x-rq54 github.com