Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-4426

Redhat Enterprise Linux 10.0 … 9.0

Published
19 March 2026
Modified
03 May 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 23th percentile
Risk Priority 49 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-4426 is a medium-severity Incorrect Bitwise Shift of Integer (CWE-1335) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 23th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A flaw was found in libarchive. An Undefined Behavior vulnerability exists in the zisofs decompression logic, caused by improper validation of a field (`pz_log2_bs`) read from ISO9660 Rock Ridge extensions. A remote attacker can exploit this by supplying a specially…

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crafted ISO file. This can lead to incorrect memory allocation and potential application crashes, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-5121Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2026-5745Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2025-5917Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2025-5915Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2025-5918Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2025-5916Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2025-5914Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2026-4424Same product: Libarchive Libarchive
CVE-2023-6476Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2025-7519Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux

Affected Assets

libarchive
libarchive
all versions
redhat
hardened images
all versions
redhat
openshift container platform
4.0
redhat
enterprise linux
10.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation can discover incorrect shift operations through static analysis, dynamic testing, or fuzzing before deployment.

Requiring documented development standards and tools can enforce language rules and static checks that prohibit out-of-range or negative shift amounts.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent shift-related coding errors via reviews and analysis tools, but eliminating this single weakness only partially fulfills the broad control intent.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing in development can detect shift-related defects before release.

prevents

Secure development life cycle includes practices that can catch or prevent undefined bitwise-shift behavior.

prevents

Application security requirements can mandate input validation and range checks that avoid invalid shift counts.

degrades

Secure system architecture and engineering principles encourage defensive coding that prevents undefined integer operations.

prevents

Secure coding directly addresses the use of safe bitwise-shift operations and bounds checking.

References