Search: CVE-2026-44943

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for iscsi-initiator-utils addressing two vulnerabilities in the open-iscsi component: an authentication bypass in the iscsiuio control socket (CVE-2026-44944) and a privilege escalation via path traversal (CVE-2026-44943). These vulnerabilities affect the iscsi-initiator-utils packages used for managing the iSCSI protocol, which facilitates distributed disk access over IP networks. The update is rated as having an Important security impact by Red Hat and is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and related variants.