RHSA-2026:97861 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mod_auth_openidc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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 mod_auth_openidc is an OpenID Connect authentication module for Apache HTTP Server. It enables an Apache HTTP Server to operate as an OpenID Connect Relying Party and/or OAuth 2.0 Resource Server.

Security Fix(es):

• mod_auth_openidc: mod_auth_openidc: Denial of Service via malformed state cookie parsing (CVE-2026-54789)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2521051 - CVE-2026-54789 mod_auth_openidc: mod_auth_openidc: Denial of Service via malformed state cookie parsing

CVEs

• CVE-2026-54789

References

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