Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.1, tag deletion via the DELETE /v2/<name>/manifests/<tag> endpoint bypasses the storage.delete.enabled: false configuration, allowing any API client to remove tags from repositories even when the operator has explicitly disabled deletion. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.1.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2049-1 advisory.

    This update for helm fixes the following issues

    Security issues:

    - CVE-2026-33814: golang.org/x/net/http2: infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad     SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE       (bsc#1265758).
    - CVE-2026-41888: github.com/distribution/distribution/v3: tag deletion bypasses the     storage.delete.enabled       configuration (bsc#1265428).

    Non security issue:

    - Fix packages for %suse_version bump (jsc#PED-15794).
    - Update to version 3.21.0

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.1, tag     deletion via the DELETE /v2/<name>/manifests/<tag> endpoint bypasses the storage.delete.enabled: false     configuration, allowing any API client to remove tags from repositories even when the operator has     explicitly disabled deletion. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.1. (CVE-2026-41888)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Distribution is a toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content. Prior to 3.1.1, tag
    deletion via the DELETE /v2/<name>/manifests/<tag> endpoint bypasses the storage.delete.enabled: false
    configuration, allowing any API client to remove tags from repositories even when the operator has
    explicitly disabled deletion. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.1. (CVE-2026-41888)

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d7d99f08ff advisory.

    Automatic update for docker-distribution-3.1.1-1.fc45.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Fri May  1 2026 Bradley G Smith <bradley.g.smith@gmail.com> - 3.1.1-1
    - Update to release v3.1.1
    - Resolves: rhbz#2455529
    - Fixes CVE-2026-41888
    - Upstream fixes and updates
    - Temporary annocheck skip test for broken branch protection test on       aarch64
    * Mon Apr  6 2026 Bradley G Smith <bradley.g.smith@gmail.com> - 3.1.0-1
    - Update to release v3.1.0
    - Resolves: rhbz#2455529, rhbz#2455654
    - Resolves CVE-2026-35172
    - Resolves CVE-2026-33540
    - Upstream fixes
    * Sun Feb  8 2026 Bradley G Smith <bradley.g.smith@gmail.com> - 3.0.0-5
    - Remove duplicate lines
    * Mon Feb  2 2026 Maxwell G <maxwell@gtmx.me> - 3.0.0-4
    - Rebuild for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/golang1.26

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
316846	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : helm (SUSE-SU-2026:2049-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
316428	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-41888	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
441104	SCA: security update for github.com/distribution/distribution/v3 (GHSA-6pjf-3r9x-m592)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
441104	SCA: security update for github.com/distribution/distribution/v3 (GHSA-6pjf-3r9x-m592)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
311486	Fedora 45 : docker-distribution (2026-d7d99f08ff)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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