High [CVE-2026-5588] PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-5588 affecting Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.28.
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Summary
PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid. Red Hat rates this important (CVSS 7.5).
Weakness: CWE-347. Affected package(s): eap8-bouncycastle, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9:1779528224, eap8-guava-failureaccess, eap8-activemq-artemis, eap8-netty-transport-native-epoll, eap8-reactivex-rxjava.
Resolved in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:14276 — update the affected packages (`sudo dnf update`).
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9; Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.28; Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3; and 22 more.
- eap8-bouncycastle-0:1.84.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
- devspaces/openvsx-rhel9:1779528224
- eap8-guava-failureaccess-0:1.0.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- eap8-activemq-artemis-0:2.40.0-6.redhat_00012.1.el9eap
- eap8-netty-transport-native-epoll-0:4.1.132-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- eap8-reactivex-rxjava-0:3.1.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- eap8-wildfly-openssl-0:2.3.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- bcpkix-jdk15to18
- eap8-jboss-metadata-0:16.1.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- eap8-angus-0:2.0.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- eap8-plexus-utils-0:3.6.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap
- bcpkix-fips
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source
- RHSA-2026:14276
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Update the affected package(s) to the fixed version shipped in RHSA-2026:14276 (`sudo dnf update` / `yum update`).
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source
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