Red Hat Security Advisory: systemd security update
Affects Red Hat systemdSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 2% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Aug 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.
What to do
AI-suggested
A security update for systemd addressing CVE-2026-29111 is available from Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Life Cycle Long Life and AUS. Users should apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate this vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Description
A moderate severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-29111) exists in systemd, the system and service manager for Linux. The flaw allows for arbitrary code execution or denial of service via malformed IPC API call data. This affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Life Cycle Long Life and AUS variants. A security update addressing this issue is available from Red Hat.