Red Hat Security Advisory: General availability of the satellite/iop-remediations-rhel9 container image
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Mentioned vulnerabilities
Public exploit available · CVSS 8.7 High : upgrade Red Hat pacote to 21.5.1 as a priority.
Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 21:05 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 28% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 21.5.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 26 May 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: evidence found.
CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public
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), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.
What to do
Upgrade pacote to 21.5.1.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pacote | Affected
| Fixed in
|
| org.webjars.npm:pacote | Affected
| Fixed in– |
npmpacotepkg:npm/pacoteOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in– |
Check your own hosts for these packages with threat-finder (opens in a new tab), our free open-source scanner.
AI-suggested
Red Hat provides a new satellite/iop-remediations-rhel9 container image for Red Hat Lightspeed in Satellite, which may include improvements but does not explicitly fix these vulnerabilities yet. Users should follow Red Hat Satellite documentation for installation and configuration guidance. Avoid processing untrusted or arbitrary brace expansion patterns in Node.js services until a fix is released. Customers with Red Hat Technical Account Managers can seek direct guidance. No urgent remediation is available at this time.
Description
Red Hat Lightspeed in Satellite is a local system health and configuration analysis tool that applies predefined rules to local data without sending information to Red Hat services. A set of vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-9496 affect components related to this product. One notable vulnerability (CVE-2026-102276) involves a flaw in the brace-expansion library that allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by triggering uncontrolled recursion and stack exhaustion via specially crafted brace patterns. Red Hat has released a new container image for satellite/iop-remediations-rhel9 but no fixes for these vulnerabilities are currently available. The vulnerabilities can lead to service interruption but do not allow code execution or data compromise.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92578 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.19/html/updating_red_hat_satellite/index (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102276 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-102278 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-90711 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9496 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97057 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/search (opens in a new tab)
- docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_satellite/6.19/html/installing_satellite_server_in_a_connected_network_environment/performing-additional-configuration-on-server_satellite (opens in a new tab)
- docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_satellite/6.19/html/installing_satellite_server_in_a_disconnected_network_environment/performing-additional-configuration (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_92578.json (opens in a new tab)