CVE-2026-13608VulnerabilityPublished 4 Sep 2026Updated 29 Oct 2026

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

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 19:04 UTC

Severity

Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 42% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Sep 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 29 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

AI-suggested

A fixed update is available for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, including Rust packages at version 1.98.0-1.hum1. Users should apply this update as per Red Hat's instructions available at https://images.redhat.com/. No additional mitigation actions are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, including updates to multiple Rust-related packages. The advisory addresses vulnerabilities identified by CVE-2026-13608 among others. The update provides bug fixes and enhancements to these RPMs. No specific affected versions are listed, and no active exploitation is reported. The severity is rated medium.

Impact

The vulnerabilities addressed by this update have a medium severity rating. The advisory does not specify the exact impact scenarios or exploitation methods. There are no known active exploits in the wild. The update improves security by fixing bugs and enhancing the hardened images RPMs related to Rust tooling.

Summary

This Red Hat security advisory announces an update to Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, specifically targeting Rust packages such as cargo, clippy, rust, rust-analyzer, and others. The update addresses multiple vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-13608, which is associated with CWEs 923, 416, and 488. The advisory lists the new package versions (1.98.0-1.hum1) for various architectures. No detailed technical description of the vulnerabilities is provided, nor are specific affected versions enumerated. The advisory includes references to Red Hat's official update channels and confirms no known exploits in the wild.

CWE-923Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints (opens in a new tab)
Class weakness
The product establishes a communication channel to (or from) an endpoint for privileged or protected operations, but it does not properly ensure that it is communicating with the correct endpoint.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Docker Security (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V1.14.1 (opens in a new tab)
V1.4.4 (opens in a new tab)
V1.4.5 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Contradictory Destinations in Traffic Routing Schemes (opens in a new tab)
Android Activity Hijack (opens in a new tab)
DHCP Spoofing (opens in a new tab)
Infrastructure Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-416Use After Free (opens in a new tab)
Variant weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #7
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Architecture and Design · Language Selection
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-488Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session (opens in a new tab)
Base weakness
The product does not sufficiently enforce boundaries between the states of different sessions, causing data to be provided to, or used by, the wrong session.
Architecture and Design
Protect the application's sessions from information leakage. Make sure that a session's data is not used or visible by other sessions.
Testing
Use a static analysis tool to scan the code for information leakage vulnerabilities (e.g. Singleton Member Field).
Architecture and Design
In a multithreading environment, storing user data in Servlet member fields introduces a data access race condition. Do not use member fields to store information in the Servlet.
Attack patterns
Session Credential Falsification through Prediction (opens in a new tab)
Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:22 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-923, CWE-416, CWE-488

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