Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions in Flatpak - CVE-2026-97025

 

Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions in Flatpak - CVE-2026-97025

Published: September 28, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU152566
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-97025
CWE-ID: CWE-378
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to disclose OCI authentication tokens.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure file permissions in the OCI token cache path when downloading apps or runtimes from an authenticated OCI repository. A local user can read the token file to disclose OCI authentication tokens.

The issue is relevant to apps, runtimes, or extensions downloaded from OCI repositories.


Affected software

Flatpak

How to mitigate CVE-2026-97025

Install security update from vendor's website.

Flatpak - update to 1.18.4

External References

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