🛡️ CVE-2026-4424
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-125 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in libarchive. This heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RAR archive processing logic due to improper validation of the LZSS sliding window size after transitions between compression methods. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted RAR archive, leading to the disclosure of sensitive heap memory information without requiring authentication or user interaction.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-19
Updated 2026-06-11
Modified 2026-06-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
enterprise-linux-server-aus
hardened-images
libarchive
openshift-container-platform
openshift-container-platform-for-arm64
openshift-container-platform-for-power

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449006
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2898

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