RHSA-2026:54605 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for yelp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

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

Yelp is the help browser for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool, including traditional man pages, info pages and documentation written in DocBook.

Security Fix(es):

• yelp: yelp-xsl: Overly Permissive Content Security Policy in Yelp Allows Host File Disclosure from Flatpak Applications (CVE-2026-13601)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2494110 - CVE-2026-13601 yelp: yelp-xsl: Overly Permissive Content Security Policy in Yelp Allows Host File Disclosure from Flatpak Applications

CVEs

• CVE-2026-13601

References

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