CVE-2026-12080: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent (qga). A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) file-symlink race. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to gain ownership of arbitrary root-owned files or directories, leading to root access. This vulnerability requires an external management layer (e.g., libvirt) to trigger the affected code path.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux For NVIDIA 26
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-08-31.