CVE-2026-5121

high

Published 2026-04-16 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Important: libarchive security update

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.6.2-1+deb12u4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.4.3-2+deb11u4`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.8.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.8.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.7.4-4+deb13u1`
sles		affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	8.0	affected
rhel	9.0	affected
rhel	10.0	affected
rocky	9	fixed

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libarchive	libarchive	`-`
redhat	hardened_images	`-`
redhat	openshift_container_platform	`4.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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