RHSA-2026:79373HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: satellite/iop-vulnerability-engine-rhel9 container image available as a Technology Preview

Published
October 8, 2026
Last Modified
October 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2026-78677 — GitPython: GitPython: Arbitrary Code Execution via Path Traversal

🎯 Affected products2

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.19
  • registry.redhat.io/satellite/iop-vulnerability-engine-rhel9@sha256:636db38da0faa0a7123670c6ecf01256d1ee3d24c02b6b764fa3c5eda3364a86_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Satellite 6.19

✅ Remediation

For Red Hat Lightspeed in Satellite installation see the Red Hat Satellite documentation. Workaround: To mitigate this vulnerability, upgrade to GitPython version 3.1.59 or later, which correctly includes `--separate-git-dir` in the unsafe options denylist. If upgrading is not immediately possible, ensure that the `separate_git_dir` parameter is never populated from untrusted or user-controlled sources. Applications should validate and sanitize any input before passing it to GitPython cloning methods, or avoid exposing the `separate_git_dir` parameter to external callers entirely.

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