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CVE-2026-96284: Flatpak: flatpak: arbitrary read-access to files in the system-helper context via oci symlink following

ROUTINE

Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.

CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.

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What to do now held facts and links

  1. No fix version is held. The CNA's first reference is the place to look: access.redhat.com
  2. Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
  3. Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.

What it is stated by the CNA

A malicious user can get read-access to files in the flatpak-system-helper context if a system OCI repository is configured, because the OCI code paths in the system helper follow symlinks when importing OCI images that are under the user's control.

weakness
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
versions
No affected-version range in held sources.
fixed in
No fix version in held sources.
severity
2.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
assigned by
redhat
published
2026-09-27

check us access.redhat.com bugzilla.redhat.com github.com

Exploit code held, dated

exploit code
None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.

Outside the record researched, cited

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What would change this brief held, dated

CISA KEV
Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
exploit probability
0.00 on 2026-09-28 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
fix
No fix version is held. One published by the CNA or OSV changes this brief.

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How to check this

Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:

SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2026-96284', '2026-10-31T23:59:59.999999Z', now());