RHSA-2026:0425 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: runc security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · January 12, 2026

Updated · November 4, 2026

Topic

An update for runc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides container runtime.

Security Fix(es):

  • runc: container escape via 'masked path' abuse due to mount race conditions (CVE-2025-31133)

  • runc: container escape with malicious config due to /dev/console mount and related races (CVE-2025-52565)

  • runc: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)

  • github.com/sirupsen/logrus: github.com/sirupsen/logrus: Denial-of-Service due to large single-line payload (CVE-2025-65637)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2026:0425 — Red Hat Security Advisory: runc security update | PulseLinux