In Flatpak before 1.18.1, a malicious sandboxed app can obtain arbitrary read and write access to files on the host, which can be escalated to arbitrary code execution on the host, a different vulnerability than CVE-2026-76925. Flatpak creates a few app data directories (e.g., \/var\/cache, \/var\/data, \/var\/config, and \/var\/tmp) in every sandbox on every app launch where, in some cases, components of the path are attacker-controlled. Missing symlink protection can redirect the directories. Some of these directories are bind-mounted by Flatpak by passing the path (e.g., \/home\/user\/.var\/app\/APP_ID\/cache\/tmp), which contains attacker-controlled directories (tmp) to bwrap –bind SRC DST. bwrap passes the path on to the kernel, which then follows symlinks. A malicious symlink can point to arbitrary locations on the host and it will become mounted inside the sandbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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