CVE-2026-96279: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A malicious OCI registry can hardlink arbitrary host files into the extraction directory when a user installs or updates a Flatpak application from an OCI remote, allowing disclosure of arbitrary host file contents. For system-wide installs running as root, this includes sensitive files such as /etc/shadow.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Published 2026-09-27. Last modified 2026-09-29.