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CVE-2026-84042VulnerabilityPublished

Red Hat Security Advisory: crun security update

Affects Red Hat crunSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-84042· High 7.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High.

Data as of 11 Nov 2026, 14:47 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 11 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 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.

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