CVE-2026-96808

A flaw was found in Flatpak. A malicious local user in an active local session could exploit a symlink traversal vulnerability in the revokefs writer. This flaw allows an attacker to modify files belonging to a different revokefs session after they have been validated. Consequently, an attacker...

CVE-2026-96808

In Flatpak before 1.18.1, the revokefs writer, used by the flatpak-system-helper to receive repository data from unprivileged callers, validated file paths by rejecting literal .. components but did not prevent symlink traversal. A malicious local user in an active local session could obtain two...