RHSA-2026:66514MediumCVSS 5.0
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-5704 — tar: tar: Hidden file injection via crafted archives
🎯 Affected products4
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- tar-2:1.35-10.hum1@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- tar-2:1.35-10.hum1@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- tar-2:1.35-10.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 mitigate this issue, avoid extracting archives from untrusted sources. If processing untrusted archives is necessary, do so within a sandboxed environment to limit potential impact.
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66514
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5704
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_66514.json