RHSA-2026:17682HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

Published
May 14, 2026
Last Modified
September 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2026-8723 →CVE-2026-42899 →CVE-2026-45149 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-8723 — qs: qs: Denial of Service due to improper handling of null/undefined array elements CVE-2026-42899 — dotnet: .NET: infinite loop allows an attacker to cause a denial of service CVE-2026-45149 — brace-expansion: brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to excessive memory allocation when expanding large numeric ranges

🎯 Affected products4

  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • dotnet8-0-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • dotnet8-0-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
  • dotnet8-0-main@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: 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. Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

🔗 References (7)