CVE-2026-74859EPSS p6.0%
CVE-2026-74859CVE-2026-74859
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.17% probability of exploitation · percentile 6.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-09 |