{"id":"RLSA-2026:57597","summary":"Moderate: kbd security update","details":"The kbd packages provide tools for managing console behavior on a Linux system, including the keyboard, screen fonts, virtual terminals, and font files.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* kbd: Local privilege escalation in openvt via incorrect process owner verification allowing passwordless root login (CVE-2026-72693)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-08-21T12:30:03.565944763Z","published":"2026-08-21T12:08:17.776256Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-72693"],"database_specific":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","source_advisory":"RHSA-2026:57597"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:57597"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462115"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57597"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kbd","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:10","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/kbd?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:2.6.4-8.el10_2"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:57597.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}