CVE-2026-97025 (GCVE-0-2026-97025)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-28 20:57 – Updated: 2026-09-28 20:57
VLAI
Title
Flatpak: flatpak: world-readable oci authentication token in system-helper cache path
Summary
Flatpak writes the OCI repository authentication token with world-readable permissions (0644) in the system-helper's cache directory, allowing other local users on a multi-user system to read the token and impersonate the authenticated user against the OCI repository. Only OCI-based sources (e.g. as used by Fedora) are affected; libostree-based sources such as Flathub are not.
Severity
3.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-378 - Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Date Public
2026-09-28 13:29
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank AISLE for reporting this issue.
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