RHSA-2026:90513 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for ignition is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

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

Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files (regular files, systemd units, etc.), and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth (remote URL, network metadata service, hypervisor bridge, etc.) and applies the configuration.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: golang: crypto/x509: Man-in-the-middle attacks via untrusted intermediate certificates (CVE-2026-111943)

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 Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2556068 - CVE-2026-111943 crypto/x509: golang: crypto/x509: Man-in-the-middle attacks via untrusted intermediate certificates

CVEs

• CVE-2026-111943

References

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