Medium severity · published Mar 19, 2026
CVE-2026-4426
Libarchive: libarchive: denial of service via malformed iso file processing
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 crafted ISO file. This can lead to incorrect memory allocation and potential application crashes, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Hardened Images · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
6.0; 7.0; 8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
HI
Hardened Images · Redhat
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LI
Libarchive · Libarchive
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
OC
Openshift Container Platform · Redhat
4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4426
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4426
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8944
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4426
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449010
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2897
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