CVE-2026-96807Medium· 4.0▾ SunlitIn Flatpak before 1.18.1, a malicious sandboxed app can replace ~/.var/app/$appid/.ld.so with a symlink, causing regenerate_ld_cache to write files at an arbitrary location. The filenames and content are not attacker controlled, making t…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 22 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 24.
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Disclosed via NVD
0.1%
Last analysed / modified upstream
In Flatpak before 1.18.1, a malicious sandboxed app can replace ~/.var/app/$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.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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