Information Exposure Affecting candlepin-selinux package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CANDLEPINSELINUX-21089330
  • published16 Oct 2026
  • disclosed3 Oct 2026

Introduced: 3 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-18040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 candlepin-selinux.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream candlepin-selinux package and not the candlepin-selinux package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.86, HQC leaked secret-derived data through two side channels: its GF(2^8) arithmetic used lookup tables indexed by field elements, making the cache line touched a function of the operand, and its fixed-weight support sampler left its duplicate scan as soon as a collision was found and stored accepted positions at a secret index. Both run on secret inputs during encapsulation and decapsulation, and the sampler re-expands the secret key from its seed on every decapsulation, so an attacker able to observe cache behaviour or decapsulation timing can recover information about the HQC private key. The field arithmetic is now table-free and the sampler branch-free within a batch of candidates, with output and randomness consumption unchanged.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1