What is CVE-2026-71227?

CVE-2026-71227 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2026-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-71227?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-71227

A flaw was found in libkcapi. A local attacker can influence an application that uses the Asynchronous Input/Output (AIO) interface. By reusing an AIO-enabled handle after a prior completion error, the _kcapi_aio_read_all() function can en…

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71227?: CVE-2026-71227 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2026-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-71227?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.