Medium [CVE-2026-23893] Privilege Escalation or Data Exposure via Symlink Following
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-23893 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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Summary
Privilege Escalation or Data Exposure via Symlink Following. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.8).
Weakness: CWE-59. Affected package(s): opencryptoki.
Resolved in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:4717 — update the affected packages (`sudo dnf update`).
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- opencryptoki-0:3.25.0-5.el10_1.2
- opencryptoki-0:3.24.0-5.el9_6.1
- opencryptoki-0:3.25.0-4.el9_7.2
- opencryptoki-0:3.22.0-3.el9_4.2
- opencryptoki-0:3.22.0-3.el8_10.2
- opencryptoki-0:3.24.0-6.el10_0.1
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
- RHSA-2026:4717
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Update the affected package(s) to the fixed version shipped in RHSA-2026:4717 (`sudo dnf update` / `yum update`).
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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