PT-2026-87018 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+1

CVE-2026-74859

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Published

2026-09-08

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Updated

2026-09-08

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
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.

Fix

Path traversal

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-74859

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9