Flameshot is powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. Prior to 14.0.0, the Open With feature wrote screenshots to a predictable temporary path and followed symlinks, creating a time-of-check to time-of-use race that allowed a local unprivileged attacker on the same machine to pre-plant a symlink and cause Flameshot to write PNG data through it, overwriting any file the victim user could write. This issue is fixed in version 14.0.0.

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Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Flameshot-org
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Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Flameshot is powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. Prior to 14.0.0, the Open With feature wrote screenshots to a predictable temporary path and followed symlinks, creating a time-of-check to time-of-use race that allowed a local unprivileged attacker on the same machine to pre-plant a symlink and cause Flameshot to write PNG data through it, overwriting any file the victim user could write. This issue is fixed in version 14.0.0.
Title Flameshot: OCTOU symlink attack via predictable /tmp path in Flameshot "Open With"
Weaknesses CWE-362
CWE-377
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-15T18:00:42.038Z

Reserved: 2026-07-13T18:37:08.488Z

Link: CVE-2026-62294

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-15T18:00:35.476Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-27T12:51:28Z

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