CVE record · CVE-2026-12080

Qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 20 Jul 2026, 12:40 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 17:10.1.0-17.el9_8.9 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: qemu-kvm-ma https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: virt:rhel/qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26 Package name: qemu-kvm https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-12080
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-61
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
CWE-61
Published: 20 Jul 2026
Updated: 4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.3	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

20 Jul 2026, 12:40 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
20 Jul 2026, 13:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:88421 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12080 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499603 issue-trackingredhat
gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3929

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.