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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-92162 (CVE-2026-92162)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-10-20 15:17 – Updated: 2026-10-28 17:45 – Source website

Details

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Prior to version 1.18.1, on systems where at least one OCI remote is configured (most common on Fedora systems), a malicious local user in an active local session could use a crafted architecture name to trick the flatpak-system-helper process into creating a root-owned directory tree with contents determined by the OCI remote, plus a root-owned lock file and icons directory, outside the intended root directory. If this vulnerability is combined with other vulnerabilities also fixed in 1.18.1, the combination can lead to local root privilege escalation. This particular vulnerability is not believed to be exploitable if there are no OCI remotes configured (common on non-Fedora systems). Version 1.18.1 patches the issue.

Severity

7.2 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-92162	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92162	REPORT
	https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advis…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-92162 (GCVE-0-2026-92162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-20 14:39 – Updated: 2026-10-20 15:32

Title

Flatpak vulnerable to path traversal via unvalidated "arch" parameter in DeployAppstream

Summary

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Prior to version 1.18.1, on systems where at least one OCI remote is configured (most common on Fedora systems), a malicious local user in an active local session could use a crafted architecture name to trick the `flatpak-system-helper` process into creating a root-owned directory tree with contents determined by the OCI remote, plus a root-owned `lock` file and `icons` directory, outside the intended root directory. If this vulnerability is combined with other vulnerabilities also fixed in 1.18.1, the combination can lead to local root privilege escalation. This particular vulnerability is not believed to be exploitable if there are no OCI remotes configured (common on non-Fedora systems). Version 1.18.1 patches the issue.

Severity

7.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-20 15:31 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7904 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/6768	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/01773f8…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/19456b9…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/commit/aeb369a…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
flatpak	flatpak	Affected: < 1.18.1

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