Red Hat Security Advisory: crun security update
Affects Red Hat crunSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High.
Data as of 11 Nov 2026, 14:47 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CNA (redhat) | CVSS 3.1 | 7.8 |
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Sep 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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 11 Nov 2026.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10crun | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9crun | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8container-tools:rhel8/crun | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red Hat Hardened Imagescrun | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4crun | Affected– | Fixed in– |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 | Affected– | Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released a security update for crun in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that addresses this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Description
A security vulnerability in crun, an OCI runtime used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, allows rootful krun with passt to execute container payloads as host root. This issue is tracked as CVE-2026-84042 and has been rated with an important security impact by Red Hat. A security update addressing this vulnerability is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on multiple architectures.