Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting rhcos 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-RHCOS-18391700
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed23 Jul 2026

Introduced: 23 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-59677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rhcos.

NVD Description

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

A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows a user that is running in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in unconfined context

This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1