Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Kernel Cryptographic API
Red Hat, LLC - FIPS 140 #5461
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Kernel Cryptographic API provides a C language API for use by other (kernel space and user space) processes that require cryptographic functionality
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 5461
- Standard
- FIPS 140-3
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- active
- Vendor
- Red Hat, LLC
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- MultiChipStand
- Lab
- atsec information security corporation
- First validated
- August 5, 2026
- Sunset date
- August 4, 2031
- Caveat
- When operated in approved mode. No assurance of minimum security of SSPs (e.g., keys, bit strings) that are externally loaded, or of SSPs established with externally loaded SSPs. The module generates random strings whose strengths are modified by available entropy.
Algorithms
- AES-CBC
- AES-CBC-CS3
- AES-CCM
- AES-CFB128
- AES-CMAC
- AES-CTR
- AES-ECB
- AES-GCM
- AES-GMAC
- AES-XTS Testing Revision 2.0
- Counter DRBG
- Hash DRBG
- HMAC DRBG
- HMAC-SHA-1
- HMAC-SHA2-224
- HMAC-SHA2-256
- HMAC-SHA2-384
- HMAC-SHA2-512
- HMAC-SHA3-224
- HMAC-SHA3-256
- HMAC-SHA3-384
- HMAC-SHA3-512
- RSA SigVer (FIPS186-5)
- SHA-1
- SHA2-224
- SHA2-256
- SHA2-384
- SHA2-512
- SHA3-224
- SHA3-256
- SHA3-384
- SHA3-512
Algorithm families of the CAVP certificates listed for this module, plus post-quantum algorithms named in its documents.
CVEs that may affect this product
- CVE-2021-40438CRITICAL 9.0KEVEPSS 100.0%
- CVE-2025-31277HIGH 8.8KEVEPSS 1.6%
- CVE-2023-32373HIGH 8.8KEVEPSS 12.2%
- CVE-2019-11043HIGH 8.7KEVEPSS 99.7%
- CVE-2026-31431HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 3.4%
- CVE-2023-4911HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 63.8%
- CVE-2022-0847HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 92.8%
- CVE-2022-0492HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 5.5%
- CVE-2021-4034HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 94.9%
- CVE-2019-13272HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 52.2%
- CVE-2019-0211HIGH 7.8KEVEPSS 65.0%
- CVE-2026-34486HIGH 7.5KEVEPSS 6.6%
- CVE-2023-44487HIGH 7.5KEVEPSS 100.0%
- CVE-2026-53006CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2026-53002CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2022-30600CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 5.0%
- CVE-2022-30599CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.4%
- CVE-2021-3773CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 5.3%
- CVE-2021-3466CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 8.7%
- CVE-2021-20232CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.4%
- CVE-2021-20231CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.8%
- CVE-2020-36329CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.3%
- CVE-2020-36328CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.7%
- CVE-2020-27846CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 4.9%
- CVE-2019-9792CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 13.2%
- CVE-2019-9791CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 19.9%
- CVE-2019-9788CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.2%
- CVE-2019-9636CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.7%
- CVE-2019-7164CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.5%
- CVE-2019-3822CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 12.9%
- CVE-2019-19334CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.9%
- CVE-2019-19333CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.6%
- CVE-2019-19012CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 10.5%
- CVE-2019-15606CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 20.0%
- CVE-2019-15605CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 57.1%
- CVE-2019-14813CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 11.0%
- CVE-2019-12450CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.6%
- CVE-2019-11356CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.6%
- CVE-2019-10126CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 6.8%
- CVE-2019-1010238CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 6.3%
- CVE-2019-0160CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.3%
- CVE-2018-25014CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.2%
- CVE-2018-25011CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.5%
- CVE-2018-20784CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 4.2%
- CVE-2026-11861CRITICAL 9.6EPSS 0.2%
- CVE-2023-46846CRITICAL 9.3EPSS 6.2%
- CVE-2023-3961CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 2.7%
- CVE-2022-1586CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 3.4%
- CVE-2021-4048CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 2.8%
- CVE-2020-36331CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 2.3%
and 950 more
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Documents and sources
Source: sec-certs.org (CRoCS, Masaryk University), from NIST CMVP and the Common Criteria Portal - dataset of September 21, 2026 - synced October 15, 2026
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