ESB-2026.3602 — Vulnetix

ESB-2026.3602 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

=========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2026.3602 podman security update 14 April 2026 =========================================================================== AUSCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: podman Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2025-68121 CVE-2025-61726 CVE-2025-61728 CVE-2025-61729 Original Bulletin: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7854 Comment: CVSS (Max): 7.5 CVE-2025-61729 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) CVSS Source: Red Hat Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H EPSS (Max): 0.0% (9th) CVE-2025-61726 2026-04-13 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- RHSA-2026:7854 - Security Advisory Issued: 2026-04-13 Updated: 2026-04-13 Synopsis Podman security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 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 The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Security Fix(es): o crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729) o golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728) o golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) o crypto/tls: Unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121) 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 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 x86_64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.6 x86_64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.6 s390x o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.6 ppc64le o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 aarch64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.6 ppc64le o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.6 x86_64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.6 aarch64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.6 s390x o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.6 x86_64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.6 aarch64 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.6 ppc64le o Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.6 s390x Fixes o BZ - 2418462 - CVE-2025-61729 crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate o BZ - 2434431 - CVE-2025-61728 golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip o BZ - 2434432 - CVE-2025-61726 golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url o BZ - 2437111 - CVE-2025-68121 crypto/tls: crypto/tls: Incorrect certificate validation during TLS session resumption CVEs o CVE-2025-61726 o CVE-2025-61728 o CVE-2025-61729 o CVE-2025-68121 References o https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT---------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AUSCERT. 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Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	podman

Timeline

Apr 14, 2026 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

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