RHEL 10 : openssl (RHSA-2026:1472)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297044

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openssl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:1472 advisory.

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution or denial of service through crafted PKCS#12 file (CVE-2025-11187)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Remote code execution or Denial of Service via oversized Initialization Vector in CMS parsing (CVE-2025-15467)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference in QUIC protocol handling (CVE-2025-15468)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Data integrity bypass in `openssl dgst` command due to silent truncation (CVE-2025-15469)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to excessive memory allocation in TLS 1.3 certificate compression (CVE-2025-66199)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds write in BIO filter (CVE-2025-68160)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Information disclosure and data tampering via specific low-level OCB encryption/decryption calls (CVE-2025-69418)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution due to out-of-bounds write in PKCS#12 processing (CVE-2025-69419)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via malformed PKCS#12 file processing (CVE-2025-69421)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via malformed TimeStamp Response (CVE-2025-69420)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to type confusion in PKCS#12 file processing (CVE-2026-22795)

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via type confusion in PKCS#7 signature verification (CVE-2026-22796)

For 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL openssl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:1472.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 297044

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-1472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/28/2026

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-15467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22796

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11187, CVE-2025-15467, CVE-2025-15468, CVE-2025-15469, CVE-2025-66199, CVE-2025-68160, CVE-2025-69418, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025-69420, CVE-2025-69421, CVE-2026-22795, CVE-2026-22796

CWE: 120, 1284, 1287, 131, 233, 325, 476, 770, 787, 843

RHSA: 2026:1472

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