High RHSA-2026:19589 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: python security update

Published May 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 8

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-debug	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-debuginfo	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-devel	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-libs	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-test	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python-tools	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	tkinter	0:2.7.5-94.el7_9.5

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.0

CVE-2026-4786

Incomplete mitigation of CVE-2026-4519, %action expansion for command injection to webbrowser.open()

Mitgation of CVE-2026-4519 was incomplete. If the URL contained "%action" the mitigation could be bypassed for certain browser types the "webbrowser.open()" API could have commands injected into the underlying shell. See CVE-2026-4519 for details.

Python Software Foundation CPython python3.4 python3.5 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi

Apr 13, 2026

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458049
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_19589.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4786
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4786
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4786
article
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/148169
article
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/148170
article
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JQDUNJVB4AQNTJECSUKOBDU3XCJIPSE5/