What is RHSA-2026:28491?

RHSA-2026:28491 is a security advisory published by Red Hat Product Security with Medium severity. Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

Which CVE IDs does RHSA-2026:28491 cover?

RHSA-2026:28491 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-44604. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of RHSA-2026:28491?

RHSA-2026:28491 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0, published by Red Hat Product Security.

Which products are affected by RHSA-2026:28491?

RHSA-2026:28491 affects 5 products, including: Red Hat Hardened Images; rpm-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images; rpm-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images; rpm-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images; rpm-main@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images.

RHSA-2026:28491MediumCVSS 7.0

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

Vendor

Red Hat Product Security

Published

June 23, 2026

Last Modified

August 16, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-44604 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-44604 — rpm: Command injection in rpmuncompress doUntar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command

🎯 Affected products5

Red Hat Hardened Images
rpm-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
rpm-main@noarch as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
rpm-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
rpm-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/

🔗 References (5)

selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28491
externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44604
externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_28491.json