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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-112210 EUVD-2026-104247GHSA-jmqr-pj67-cqv5

Rhc: rhc: local privilege escalation via symlink following in rhc-canonical-facts.service

Published Oct 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in the rhc-canonical-facts.service systemd unit shipped with rhc. The service runs as root and operates on a file inside a directory owned by an unprivileged system user without verifying that the file is not a symbolic link. A local attacker who has already compromised the privileged yggdrasil system service account can exploit this to gain ownership of arbitrary files, leading to privilege escalation to root.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —

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