Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9/10 OCI Code Paths path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9/10. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component OCI Code Paths. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-96284. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9/10 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component OCI Code Paths. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A malicious user can get read-access to files in the flatpak-system-helper context if a system OCI repository is configured, because the OCI code paths in the system helper follow symlinks when importing OCI images that are under the user's control.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-96284 since 09/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 09/28/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-88046). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux

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• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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