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Advisory severityMedium6.7Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-88922] Privilege escalation via crafted archive decompression

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-88922; related products: Red Hat Hardened Images, Exploit Intelligence, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer.

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CVE-2026-88922
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Summary

Privilege escalation via crafted archive decompression. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.7).

Weakness: CWE-278. Red Hat lists fixing advisory RHSA-2026:68259 with package opentofu1-12-main-1.12.6-0.2.hum1, opentofu1-10-main-1.10.10-0.4.hum1, syft-main-1.51.1-0.2.hum1, grype-main-0.118.0-0.2.hum1.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images; Exploit Intelligence; Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer.

Affected versions
  • 1.8.8
  • 2.2.3

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • opentofu1-12-main-1.12.6-0.2.hum1
  • opentofu1-10-main-1.10.10-0.4.hum1
  • syft-main-1.51.1-0.2.hum1
  • grype-main-0.118.0-0.2.hum1
  • trivy-main-0.74.0-0.3.hum1
  • RHSA-2026:68259

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: opentofu1-12-main-1.12.6-0.2.hum1, opentofu1-10-main-1.10.10-0.4.hum1, syft-main-1.51.1-0.2.hum1, grype-main-0.118.0-0.2.hum1, trivy-main-0.74.0-0.3.hum1, RHSA-2026:68259. 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.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source

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