{"id":"CVE-2026-97025","title":"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 u…","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 u…","severity":"low","cvss":3.2,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N","cwe":["CWE-378"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"flatpak","affected":["flatpak (all versions)","flatpak (all versions)","flatpak (all versions)","flatpak (all versions)"],"published":"2026-09-28","updated":"2026-09-28","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-28T21:17:19.757","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97025","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97025","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542628","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-7rvf-rqr3-43j4","label":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-09-28T21:20:54.787Z","slug":"CVE-2026-97025","body":"## Overview\n\nFlatpak 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":18,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":17.6,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}