CVE-2026-7374 – Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12

CVSS 9.9 CRITICAL

“A critical privilege escalation weakness in virtualization infrastructure can expose entire workloads to compromise.”

Red Hat released a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12. CVE-2026-7374 has a CVSS score of 9.9, which is Critical severity.

The vulnerability involves improper link resolution that could allow privilege escalation in affected virtualization environments. Successful exploitation could enable an attacker to gain elevated privileges and impact virtual machine workloads, host resources, or administrative operations. The update strengthens file handling and access control protections to reduce exposure.

Key Details

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
CWE Classification
CWE-59
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