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CVE-2026-23490VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: resource-agents security update

Affects Red Hat resource-agentsSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 55% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 4 Feb 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 31 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated resource-agents packages that fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:1904. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.

Description

A denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2026-23490) exists in the pyasn1 library used by the resource-agents packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The flaw is caused by memory exhaustion triggered by malformed RELATIVE-OID data. The resource-agents provide scripts for high-availability service managers such as Pacemaker and RGManager. Red Hat has issued a security update addressing this issue.

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