What is CVE-2026-71225?

CVE-2026-71225 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Use of Insufficiently Random Values. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-71225?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-71225

A flaw was found in libkcapi. When performing one-shot symmetric cipher operations on large inputs (over 64 KiB) in stateful modes such as Counter (CTR) or Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), the library improperly reuses the Initialization Vecto…

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-330 — Use of Insufficiently Random Values

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71225?: CVE-2026-71225 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Use of Insufficiently Random Values. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-71225?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.