Description
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 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.
References3
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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3.2
LOW
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 2 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-378
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