CVE-2026-19519 json
Claircore: claircore: denial of service via unchecked type assertion in rpm header parser
published 2026-08-11 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-14 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-55974
- cvss
- 4.3
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
A flaw was found in claircore's RPM package scanner. Crafted RPM header data in a container layer can cause an unchecked type assertion to panic the scanner. The panic is not recovered, causing the Clair indexer process to crash, leading to a denial of service.
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-19519 updated cvss 4.3
claircore: claircore: denial of service via unchecked type assertion in RPM header parser
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 advanced-cluster-security, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel9, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel9, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator, +3 more Red Hat Quay 3 quay/clair-rhel8, quay/clair-rhel9affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 2 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
Affected products
- Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
- Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
References
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access.redhat.com
/security/cve/CVE-2026-19519
vdb-entry
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bugzilla.redhat.com
/show_bug.cgi?id=2513781
issue-tracking
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-19519
- NVD CVE-2026-19519
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