Red Hat Security Advisory: resource-agents security update
Affects Red Hat resource-agentsSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC
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
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Feb 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 31 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released updated resource-agents packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 variants that fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2026:2460) to remediate the issue. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official patch.
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. The flaw involves memory exhaustion triggered by a malformed RELATIVE-OID. This affects service manager scripts used in high-availability environments. Red Hat has issued an important security update to address this issue in resource-agents for RHEL 8.8 variants.