Red Hat Security Advisory: opencryptoki security update
Affects Red Hat opencryptokiSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 22:52 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 17 Mar 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 5 Nov 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released an official security update for opencryptoki in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 to address CVE-2026-23893. Users should apply the update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:4717 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate this vulnerability.
Description
A moderate severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-23893) in the opencryptoki packages used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 allows privilege escalation or data exposure via symlink following. The opencryptoki package implements the PKCS#11 API for IBM cryptographic hardware and software tokens. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this issue.