RHSA-2026:98129HighCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: acl security update

Published
November 11, 2026
Last Modified
November 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2026-54369 →CVE-2026-54370 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-54369 — acl: Symlink traversal privilege escalation via libacl functions CVE-2026-54370 — acl: TOCTOU Symlink Traversal via getfacl/setfacl

🎯 Affected products27

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • acl-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • libacl-devel-0:2.4.0-0.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Restrict unprivileged users from creating symlinks in directories that privileged processes operate on with ACL commands. Where possible, use the fs.protected_symlinks sysctl (enabled by default on RHEL 7+), which prevents symlink following in world-writable sticky directories unless the owner of the symlink matches the owner of the target file or directory.

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