Medium [CVE-2026-88015] Denial of Service via crafted Range request against translated symlink
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-88015 affecting Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2, AWS Load Balancer Operator, Builds for Red Hat OpenShift.
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Summary
A flaw was found in rclone. When rclone is configured with backend/local and links=true, it exposes symlink targets as.rclonelink objects.
A remote attacker can send a crafted Range request with an unchecked positive Range start, leading to a deterministic slice-bounds panic. This issue results in a request-level Denial of Service (DoS), where individual connections can be disrupted.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L). Weakness: CWE-125.
Affected products named by the advisory: Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2; AWS Load Balancer Operator; Builds for Red Hat OpenShift; cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift; and 54 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Compliance Operator; Confidential Compute Attestation; Cost Management On Premise; Cryostat 4; and 50 more.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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- 1.75.1
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 1.75.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
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