UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux

XDG Desktop Portal vulnerability

USN-8287-1 Published May 20, 2026

CVE-2026-40354

Affected products & platforms

Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified

Summary

It was discovered that XDG Desktop Portal incorrectly handled trashing files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to delete arbitrary files on the host file system via a symlink attack. Affected Ubuntu releases: 25.10, 24.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-40354.

Affected versions

Ubuntu 25.10
Ubuntu 24.04

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

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