RHSA-2026:84595 — Security Advisory

An update for cockpit-files is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

A filesystem browser for Cockpit

Security Fix(es):

• cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Arbitrary file ownership change via symlink following in privileged paste (CVE-2026-91202)

• cockpit-files: cockpit-files: Local attacker can hijack file ownership via symlink race (CVE-2026-91205)

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.