<Vulnerability name="CVE-2026-12080">
    <DocumentDistribution xml:lang="en">Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.</DocumentDistribution>
    <ThreatSeverity>Important</ThreatSeverity>
    <PublicDate>2026-07-09T10:57:00</PublicDate>
    <Bugzilla id="2499603" url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499603" xml:lang="en:us">
qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: Local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys
    </Bugzilla>
    <CVSS3 status="draft">
        <CVSS3BaseScore>7.3</CVSS3BaseScore>
        <CVSS3ScoringVector>CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</CVSS3ScoringVector>
    </CVSS3>
    <CWE>CWE-61</CWE>
    <Details xml:lang="en:us" source="Red Hat">
No description is available for this CVE.
    </Details>
    <Acknowledgement xml:lang="en:us">
Red Hat would like to thank Valentino Paulon for reporting this issue.
    </Acknowledgement>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10</ProductName>
        <FixState>Under investigation</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7</ProductName>
        <FixState>Not affected</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm-ma</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8</ProductName>
        <FixState>Under investigation</FixState>
        <PackageName>virt:rhel/qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9</ProductName>
        <FixState>Under investigation</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_nvidia:">
        <ProductName>Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26</ProductName>
        <FixState>Out of support scope</FixState>
        <PackageName>qemu-kvm</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <PackageState cpe="cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4">
        <ProductName>Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4</ProductName>
        <FixState>Under investigation</FixState>
        <PackageName>rhcos</PackageName>
    </PackageState>
    <References xml:lang="en:us">
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12080
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12080
    </References>
</Vulnerability>