CVE-2026-97023

Flatpak: flatpak: arbitrary file deletion in root context via path traversal in deploy directory export/bin

HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.37 % · percentile 31 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-09-28 18:53 UTC
Updated: 2026-10-26 10:34 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-88442
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-97023

Affected products

Product	Versions
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:1.16.0-9.el10_2.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:1.12.9-9.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:1.12.9-4.el9_8.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD