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CVE-2026-84042VulnerabilityPublished

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (crun): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Ausführen von beliebigem Programmcode mit Administratorrechten

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-84042· High 7.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High.

Data as of 12 Nov 2026, 12:06 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (redhat)CVSS 3.17.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 10 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 12 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10crunAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9crunAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8container-tools:rhel8/crunAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Hardened ImagescrunAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4crunAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8Affected–Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released fixed versions of crun in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and 10. Users should apply the official security updates as detailed in Red Hat advisories RHSA-2026:97561 and RHSA-2026:98561. The vendor manages remediation through these updates, and no additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the patches.

Description

A security vulnerability (CVE-2026-84042) in the crun OCI runtime on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) allows execution of arbitrary code with administrator (root) privileges. This issue affects RHEL versions prior to 9 and 10. Red Hat has released security updates in versions 9 and 10 to address this flaw. The vulnerability involves the rootful krun with passt feature executing container payloads as the host root user.

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