RHSA-2026:56133 — Security Advisory

An update for attr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

The attr packages provide extended attributes, which can be used to store system objects like capabilities of executables and access control lists, as well as user objects.

Security Fix(es):

• attr: Symlink Traversal Privilege Escalation via getfattr and setfattr (CVE-2026-54371)

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.