SUSE-SU-2026:5127-1: Security update for flatpak

Published Nov 6, 2026
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Updated

This update for flatpak fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-34078: Arbitrary code execution via crafted symlinks in sandbox-expose options (bsc#1261769). - CVE-2026-34079: Arbitrary file deletion on host via improper cache file path validation (bsc#1261770). - CVE-2026-90616: missing symlink protection allows a malicious sandboxed app to obtain arbitrary read and write access to files on the host (bsc#1280236). - CVE-2026-92162: path traversal via unvalidated arch parameter in DeployAppstream (bsc#1282514). - CVE-2026-96275: arbitrary write access as root via extra-data extraction (bsc#1282515). - CVE-2026-96276: arbitrary write in host context via flatpak build-init (bsc#1282516). - CVE-2026-96280: buffer overflow in OCI delta stream path names (bsc#1282518). - CVE-2026-96281: unprivileged active user can bypass anti-downgrade checks for system apps/runtimes (bsc#1282519). - CVE-2026-96282: extension metadata path traversal file existence oracle (bsc#1282520). - CVE-2026-96807: fixed-filename writes to arbitrary locations via symlink attack on .ld.so (bsc#1282523). - CVE-2026-96808: revokefs symlink path traversal allows local privilege escalation via commit tampering (bsc#1282524).

Changes for flatpak:

- Update to version 1.16.6 (jsc#PED-17048): + Fix file descriptor leaks affecting Chromium-based browsers. + Fix installing extra-data without a runtime, including OpenH264. + Ignore unusable sandbox-expose paths for portal sub-sandboxes, fixing Epiphany regressions. + Fix installed tests and handling of standard file descriptors passed as invalid flatpak run arguments. - Switch from Autotools to Meson, preserving system bubblewrap, xdg-dbus-proxy, curl and distribution-specific installation paths. - Require bubblewrap >= 0.10.0 and GPGME >= 1.8.0; add Meson, gettext, gtk-doc and polkit-agent build dependencies and drop obsolete intltool and libelf build dependencies. - Generate the system-user pre-script from the Meson build directory and package the tmpfiles configuration and renamed manual pages.

Other sources

This update for flatpak fixes the following issues: CVE-2026-34078: Arbitrary code execution via crafted symlinks in sandbox-expose options (bsc#1261769). CVE-2026-34079: Arbitrary file deletion on host via improper cache file path validation (bsc#1261770). CVE-2026-90616: missing symlink protection allows a malicious sandboxed app to obtain arbitrary read and write access to files on the host (bsc#1280236). CVE-2026-92162: path traversal via unvalidated arch parameter in DeployAppstream (bsc#1282514). CVE-2026-96275: arbitrary write access as root via extra-data extraction (bsc#1282515). CVE-2026-96276: arbitrary write in host context via flatpak build-init (bsc#1282516). CVE-2026-96280: buffer overflow in OCI delta stream path names (bsc#1282518). CVE-2026-96281: unprivileged active user can bypass anti-downgrade checks for system apps/runtimes (bsc#1282519). CVE-2026-96282: extension metadata path traversal file existence oracle (bsc#1282520). CVE-2026-96807: fixed-filename writes to arbitrary locations via symlink attack on .ld.so (bsc#1282523). CVE-2026-96808: revokefs symlink path traversal allows local privilege escalation via commit tampering (bsc#1282524). Changes for flatpak: Update to version 1.16.6 (jsc#PED-17048): Fix file descriptor leaks affecting Chromium-based browsers. Fix installing extra-data without a runtime, including OpenH264. Ignore unusable sandbox-expose paths for portal sub-sandboxes, fixing Epiphany regressions. Fix installed tests and handling of standard file descriptors passed as invalid flatpak run arguments. Switch from Autotools to Meson, preserving system bubblewrap, xdg-dbus-proxy, curl and distribution-specific installation paths. Require bubblewrap >= 0.10.0 and GPGME >= 1.8.0; add Meson, gettext, gtk-doc and polkit-agent build dependencies and drop obsolete intltool and libelf build dependencies. Generate the system-user pre-script from the Meson build directory and package the tmpfiles configuration and renamed manual pages.

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Affected Software

64 affected componentsFixes available
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/flatpak-debugsource<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/typelib<1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-devel<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/system-user-flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-remote-flathub<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-zsh-completion<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/flatpak-debugsource<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/typelib<1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-devel<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/system-user-flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-remote-flathub<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-zsh-completion<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/flatpak-debugsource<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/typelib<1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-devel<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/system-user-flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-remote-flathub<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-zsh-completion<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/flatpak-debugsource<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/typelib<1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-devel<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/system-user-flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-remote-flathub<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-zsh-completion<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/flatpak-debugsource<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/typelib<1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/libflatpak0<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-devel<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/system-user-flatpak<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-remote-flathub<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
suse/flatpak-zsh-completion<1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
1.16.6-150500.3.21.1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak-debugsource to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak-debuginfo to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/libflatpak0-debuginfo to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/typelib to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1_0-Flatpak-1_0-1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/libflatpak0 to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak-devel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/system-user-flatpak to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak-remote-flathub to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/flatpak-zsh-completion to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6-150500.3.21.1
  11. Upgrade

    Upgrade flatpak to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.16.6
  12. Upgrade

    Upgrade bubblewrap to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0.10.0
  13. Upgrade

    Upgrade GPGME to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.8.0

Event History

Nov 6, 2026
Advisory Published
via OSV·08:27 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·08:27 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
Advisory Published
via SUSE·08:27 AM
Data Sourced
via SUSE·08:27 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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