CVE-2026-16460

high

Description

A flaw was found in bootc and ostree. Already-staged deployments are finalized without revalidating the deployment's container image against the current containers signature policy. Unsigned OS content staged under a prior permissive policy can remain bootable after policy is hardened to reject unsigned images, leading to full host compromise on reboot.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-104093

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503167

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16460

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-19

Updated: 2026-10-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00098