A flaw was identified in the RAR5 archive decompression logic of the libarchive library, specifically within the archivereaddata()…
CVE-2026-4111
A flaw was identified in the RAR5 archive decompression logic of the libarchive library, specifically within the archivereaddata() processing path. When a specially crafted RAR5 archive is processed, the decompression routine may enter a state where internal logic prevents forward progress. This condition results in an infinite loop that continuously consumes CPU resources. Because the archive passes checksum validation and appears structurally valid, affected applications cannot detect the issue before processing. This can allow attackers to cause persistent denial-of-service conditions in services that automatically process archives.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 13 March 2026
- Last updated
- 4 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18 · Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 · Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3 · Red Hat Discovery 2
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10065
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10081
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10097
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14773
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:15087
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16008
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16009
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16174
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17596
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25096
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5063
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5080
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