CVE-2026-97025
Flatpak: flatpak: world-readable oci authentication token in system-helper cache path
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Low3.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.13% · top 98% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions: affected
What to do
Workaround: Use libostree repositories such as Flathub, or unauthenticated (public) OCI repositories.
References (3)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97025 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2542628 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-7rvf-rqr3-43j4 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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