[NEW] [medium] Red Hat Enterprise Linux (udisks2): Vulnerability Enables Privilege Escalation

CSIRTS triage

What

Local attacker can escalate privileges via vulnerability in udisks2.

Who is affected

Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments where local attacker access exists.

Urgency

Medium severity as local exploitation only; patch within standard maintenance windows.

Action

Apply updates for CVE-2026-7867 via Red Hat package management.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source

CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)

Severity

medium

Published

2026-08-13

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Language

Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2760

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

• Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-78670.18% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 7% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

Same CVEs, other sources

How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.

• highCVE-2026-7867: A flaw was found in udisks2. A local attacker with an active console session can exploit insuff…nvd
• unknownDSA-6414-1 udisks2 - security updatedebian

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