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RHSA-2026:94254

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-11-03 02:53 - Updated: 2026-11-04 15:57

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: zero trust workload identity manager for Red Hat OpenShift 1.1.3

Severity

Important

Notes

Topic: zero trust workload identity manager for Red Hat OpenShift 1.1.3

Details: The Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager (ZTWIM) is a day-2 operator. The operator manages lifecycle of operand components from SPIRE project. The goal of ZTWIM is to provide secure, verifiable workload identities for workloads in multi-cloud environments. The operand components automate identity issuance, rotation, and verification, enhancing the zero-trust security model while eliminating static credentials. The current release of zero trust workload identity manager for Red Hat OpenShift is Generally Available.

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CVE-2026-111943

A flaw was found in Go's crypto/x509 package. The certificate verification process fails to block trust in intermediate certificates associated with a compromised Certificate Authority (CA). A remote attacker presenting a certificate signed by these intermediate authorities can impersonate legitimate servers during secure connections. This flaw can enable an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack to intercept or alter confidential communications.

6.8 (Medium)


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

CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation

Affected products

Fixed 4 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager 1.1:registry.redhat.io/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-helper-rhel9@sha256:2dd90f049e394d7c2ec9fd137c239ec13e9768659dc719959aee5bb64d578ff1_arm64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager 1.1:registry.redhat.io/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-helper-rhel9@sha256:764457eb736728724b26300c17af7c0bce85253f30d693521c6414d9306c9042_s390x	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager 1.1:registry.redhat.io/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-helper-rhel9@sha256:c84862fed5c45d6d038aca0f804f7d604672479e696a97534d2ba2f93296ba79_ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager 1.1:registry.redhat.io/zero-trust-workload-identity-manager/spiffe-helper-rhel9@sha256:ddf46332ee814664d0b0f2002fc5770297ed2a062f32f134fd418480c2db5c29_amd64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround

Threats

Impact Important

References

13 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:94254	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-111943	external
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshif…	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-111943	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2556068	external
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilitie…	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111943	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111943	external
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/82345	external
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/K22sG2AYnKU	external
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6809	external

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CVE-2026-111943 (GCVE-0-2026-111943)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-21 00:52 – Updated: 2026-10-30 13:08

Title

Distrust compromised intermediate certificates in crypto/x509

Summary

On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates. However, in some narrower cases, the system trust stores may not be updated without further action. To defend against the narrower set of cases that may remain affected, a denylist was added in crypto/x509 to return an error when calling Verify with any of the known intermediate certificates that are no longer considered to be trustworthy.

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-30 13:08 UTC

CWE

CWE-299 - Improper Check for Certificate Revocation

Assigner

Go CNA under the Google root

CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 64 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://go.dev/cl/851047
https://go.dev/issue/82345
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/66p…
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6809
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/1…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Go standard library	crypto/x509	Affected: 0 , < 1.26.10 (semver) Affected: 1.27.0-0 , < 1.27.3 (semver)

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