MEDIUM 6.8 NVD

CVE-2026-74859

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

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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-74859
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529702

Published: 2026-09-08 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-09-11

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8 was published on 2026-09-08 via NVD.

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