What is CVE-2026-97025?

CVE-2026-97025 is a low-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 3.2/10. Published 2026-09-28.

How severe is CVE-2026-97025?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-97025

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.

Published 2026-09-28.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.2 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-378 — Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97025 (vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)
github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-7rvf-rqr3-43j4

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-97025?: CVE-2026-97025 is a low-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions. CVSS score: 3.2/10. Published 2026-09-28.
How severe is CVE-2026-97025?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.2 out of 10.