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Red HatCVE-2026-74859

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: path traversal

Medium6.8CVE-2026-74859 · Published Sep 8, 2026 · updated Sep 9, 2026

The shell theme installer in gnome-tweaks extracts user-supplied ZIP archives without validating archive member paths. As a result, a crafted theme archive can write files outside ~/.themes by using ../ path traversal, absolute paths, or symlink entries.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-22

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