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CVE-2026-56851VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-56851· High 7.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade Red Hat precis to 0.41.0 soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 00:14 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 0.41.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 7 Oct 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 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade golang.org/x/text/secure/precis to 0.41.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
golang.org/x/textgolang.org/x/text/secure/precisAffected
  • <0.41.0
Fixed in
  • 0.41.0
Gogolang.org/x/text/secure/precispkg:golang/golang.org/x/text/secure/precisOther threatsAffected
  • <0.41.0
Fixed in
  • 0.41.0

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in the updated opentelemetry-collector-contrib package version 0.162.0-0.1.hum1 for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. Users should apply this update to mitigate the vulnerability. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor.

Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in golang.org/x/text's Nickname profile due to an out-of-bounds slice indexing error. An attacker can cause an application using this library to panic and crash by submitting specially crafted input. This issue affects Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs that include the vulnerable opentelemetry-collector-contrib package. An update to opentelemetry-collector-contrib version 0.162.0-0.1.hum1 is available to address this issue.

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