CVE coverage

CVE-2026-96279

CVSS 6.5 no coverage

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.

Detection rules

No detection found — yet

None of Sigma, Elastic, Splunk ESCU, YARA, Microsoft Sentinel, Snort, or Suricata currently has a rule referencing CVE-2026-96279.