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Red HatCVE-2026-96281

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: improper access control

Medium6.2CVE-2026-96281 · Published Sep 27, 2026

On a multi-user system, a user with an active local login session could downgrade a system-wide Flatpak app to an older version by removing the app's remote ref via the unprivileged system-helper RemoveLocalRef method, causing the anti-downgrade check to fail to find a reference date. A malicious local user could use this to expose other users of the same system to an app version with unfixed vulnerabilities.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
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