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Red Hat Security Advisory: osbuild-composer security update

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Published: Wed May 20 2026 (05/20/2026, 03:59:13 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for osbuild-composer, a service used to build customized OS artifacts such as VM images and OSTree commits. The update addresses two vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-68121, involving unexpected TLS session resumption behavior, and CVE-2026-25679, related to incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in the net/url package. These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 6 Extended Update Support and related variants. The advisory rates the security impact as Important. A security update is available to remediate these vulnerabilities.

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AILast updated: 05/26/2026, 22:25:22 UTC

Technical Analysis

The osbuild-composer service in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support has two security vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-68121 concerns an unexpected session resumption issue in the crypto/tls package that causes incorrect certificate validation during TLS session resumption. CVE-2026-25679 involves incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in the net/url package. These vulnerabilities could affect the security of TLS connections and URL parsing within the osbuild-composer service, which builds and uploads OS images. Red Hat has released updated packages to address these issues.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities impact the security of TLS session resumption and URL parsing in osbuild-composer, potentially leading to incorrect certificate validation and improper handling of IPv6 addresses. This could undermine the security guarantees of TLS connections and URL processing in the affected service. The advisory classifies the impact as Important, indicating a significant security concern but does not provide evidence of active exploitation in the wild.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released security updates for osbuild-composer in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support and related variants. Users should apply these official updates as described in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the vulnerabilities. Since a fix is available, applying the update is the recommended mitigation. No additional vendor guidance indicates that no action is required or that the issue is already mitigated.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2026:19475
Cve Count
2
Additional Cves
["CVE-2026-25679"]
Cvss Version
null

Threat ID: 6a16097fe29bf47b5064bc62

Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:39 PM

Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 10:25:22 PM

Last updated: 5/27/2026, 4:56:09 AM

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