CVE-2026-96807 (GCVE-0-2026-96807)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-23 16:54
Modified
2026-09-26 22:51
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Summary
In Flatpak before 1.18.1, a malicious sandboxed app can replace ~/.var/app/$appid/.ld.so with a symlink, causing regenerate_ld_cache to write files at an arbitrary location. The filenames and content are not attacker controlled, making this hard to exploit.
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