Red Hat Security Advisory: RHTAS 1.4.5 - Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer Release
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.7 High : upgrade Red Hat to 1.20.2 soon.
Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 14:34 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CNA (GitHub_M) | CVSS 4.0 | 8.7 |
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- Patch
- Available – fixed in 1.20.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 26 Oct 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 13 Nov 2026.
What to do
Upgrade compress to 1.20.2.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| klauspostcompress | Affected
| Fixed in
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AI-suggested
Red Hat advises rejecting or filtering untrusted Zstandard-compressed payloads at ingress proxies or restricting decompression endpoints to authenticated, trusted clients. No direct configuration-level workaround exists within the library itself. The definitive remediation is to upgrade to klauspost/compress version 1.20.2 or later, or apply the corresponding fixed Red Hat builds that enforce bounds checking and reject malformed inputs. Until patched, limiting exposure by filtering untrusted inputs is recommended.
Description
CVE-2026-116591 is a denial of service vulnerability in the klauspost compress library's Zstandard (zstd) decompression implementation used by Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer (RHTAS). A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted zstd compressed stream that triggers an out-of-bounds read due to an integer handling flaw, causing the application to crash. This affects applications decompressing untrusted inputs using vulnerable decode routines. Mitigations include rejecting or filtering untrusted zstd payloads or restricting decompression to trusted clients. An upstream patch is available in klauspost/compress version 1.20.2 and corresponding Red Hat builds to fully remediate the issue.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98995 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1.4 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_trusted_artifact_signer/1.4/html-single/release_notes/index (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-116591 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_98995.json (opens in a new tab)