RHSA-2026:1241 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for resource-agents is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The resource-agents packages provide the Pacemaker and RGManager service managers with a set of scripts. These scripts interface with several services to allow operating in a high-availability (HA) environment.

Security Fix(es):

• urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion (CVE-2025-66418)
• urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
• urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API) (CVE-2026-21441)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2419455 - CVE-2025-66418 urllib3: urllib3: Unbounded decompression chain leads to resource exhaustion
• BZ - 2419467 - CVE-2025-66471 urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data
• BZ - 2427726 - CVE-2026-21441 urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)

CVEs

• CVE-2025-66418
• CVE-2025-66471
• CVE-2026-21441

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important