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medium6.8

CVE-2026-74859

The shell theme installer in gnome-tweaks extracts user-supplied ZIP archives without validating archive member paths.

Impact

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.

Affected packages

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