Description
flatpak-builder is a tool to build flatpaks from source. From 1.4.5 to before 1.4.8, the license-files manifest key takes an array of paths to user defined licence files relative to the source directory of the module. The paths from that array are resolved using g_file_resolve_relative_path() and validated to stay inside the source directory using two checks - g_file_get_relative_path() which does not resolve symlinks and g_file_query_file_type() with G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS which only applies to the final path component. The copy operation runs on host. This can be exploited by using a crafted manifest and/or source to read arbitrary files from the host and capture them into the build output. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.8.
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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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| Description | flatpak-builder is a tool to build flatpaks from source. From 1.4.5 to before 1.4.8, the license-files manifest key takes an array of paths to user defined licence files relative to the source directory of the module. The paths from that array are resolved using g_file_resolve_relative_path() and validated to stay inside the source directory using two checks - g_file_get_relative_path() which does not resolve symlinks and g_file_query_file_type() with G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS which only applies to the final path component. The copy operation runs on host. This can be exploited by using a crafted manifest and/or source to read arbitrary files from the host and capture them into the build output. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.8. | |
| Title | flatpak-builder has a path traversal leading to arbitrary file read on host when installing licence files | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-09T20:19:28.323Z
Reserved: 2026-04-08T00:01:47.628Z
Link: CVE-2026-39977
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-09T20:16:26.660
Modified: 2026-04-09T20:16:26.660
Link: CVE-2026-39977
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