RHSA-2026:66208HighCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

Published
September 9, 2026
Last Modified
October 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2026-71556 →CVE-2026-71557 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-71556 — github.com/go-git/go-git/v5: go-git: Arbitrary file read/write via symbolic link resolution CVE-2026-71557 — github.com/go-git/go-git: github.com/go-git/go-git/v5: go-git: Unauthorized file modification via directory traversal in reference names

🎯 Affected products4

  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • kube-state-metrics-0:2.20.0-0.2.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • kube-state-metrics-0:2.20.0-0.2.hum1@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • kube-state-metrics-0:2.20.0-0.2.hum1@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://images.redhat.com/ Workaround: To reduce the risk of exploitation, do not clone or run worktree operations (checkout, status, add) on Git repositories originating from untrusted or attacker-controllable sources using an affected version of go-git. The issue is resolved by updating to go-git 5.19.2 or 6.0.0-alpha.5 (or later). Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

🔗 References (6)