Vulnerability in Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation
CVE-2026-114236
storage/pkg/archive.ApplyLayer and ApplyUncompressedLayer may, when processing corrupt or malicious inputs, leak a file descriptor; unbounded repeated calls can exhaust the process’ file descriptor limit
Published .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.
Affected products
- Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation
- Red Hat Dpu Kit For NVIDIA
- Red Hat Exploit Intelligence
- Red Hat Multicluster Engine For Kubernetes
- Red Hat NVIDIA Jetpack 6 For Rhel
- Red Hat Openshift Lightspeed
- Red Hat Openshift Source-To-Image (S2i)
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Build Of Podman Desktop
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-114236 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-114236?
- CVE-2026-114236 is a low-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2026-10-21.
- How severe is CVE-2026-114236?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.