Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
CVE-2026-19079
A TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) race condition vulnerability was found in the fixfiles script in policycoreutils. When running fixfiles relabel or fixfiles restore, the script used find and chcon commands to locate and relabel unlabel…
Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-19079?
- CVE-2026-19079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2026-08-07.
- How severe is CVE-2026-19079?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.