A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows a user that is running in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in unconfined context This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-130390 advisory.

    A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows auser that is running     in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in     unconfined context






    This issue affects policycoreutils through 3.10.

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

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

According to the versions of the policycoreutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    ['Hello,\n\nOn Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 12:48:22PM +0200, Matthias Gerstner wrote:', '5) CVE     Assignments\n==================\n\nWe approached the upstream SELinux userspace utilities developers     and\nsuggested to assign CVEs for the two issues discussed above. Upstream\ninformed us that they don't     take care of CVE assignment themselves,\nhowever. Since Red Hat developers are also involved with     upstream\ndevelopment, we are currently waiting for an agreement on who will\nassign CVEs to avoid     duplicates.', 'we got a response from upstream devs by now and as a result assigned\nCVEs on our end as     follows:', '3.1) Local File Deletion Attack Vector in rm_rf()', 'CVE-2026-59676', '3.2) Process Kill     Attack Vector in killall()', 'CVE-2026-59677\n\nBest Regards\n\nMatthias\n\n-- \nMatthias Gerstner     matthias.gerstner () suse de\nSecurity Engineer', 'GPG Key ID: 0x14C405C971923553\n \nSUSE Software     Solutions Germany GmbH\nHRB 36809, AG Nrnberg\nGeschftsfhrer: Jochen Jaser, Andrew     McDonald'](CVE-2026-59677)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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.

  - A Missing Authorization vulnerability in selinux policycoreutils seunshares allows a user that is running     in unconfined context to kill e.g. root-owned processes running also in unconfined context This issue     affects policycoreutils through 3.10. (CVE-2026-59677)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
366308	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: policycoreutils (UTSA-2026-130390)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
364026	EulerOS 2.0 SP15 : policycoreutils (EulerOS-SA-2026-4006)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
363995	EulerOS 2.0 SP15 : policycoreutils (EulerOS-SA-2026-3940)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
329589	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-59677	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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