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CVE record · CVE-2026-4897

Polkit: polkit: denial of service via unbounded input processing through standard input

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0016 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 26 Mar 2026, 14:56 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
VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: polkit https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:125-4.el10_2.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: polkit-main https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/
  • unaffected 127-5.1.hum1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: polkit https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: polkit https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: polkit https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: polkit 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-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
Identifiers
CVE-2026-4897
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770
Tags
Published
26 Mar 2026
Updated
5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0016, the 4th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 26 Mar 2026, 14:56 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 26 Mar 2026, 15:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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.