The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:3010 advisory.

    MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and validating credentials.
    It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an HPC cluster environment. It allows a process to     authenticate the UID and GID of another local or remote process within a group of hosts having common     users and groups. These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared cryptographic key. Clients     within this security realm can create and validate credentials without the use of root privileges,     reserved ports, or platform-specific methods.

    Security Fix(es):

    * MUNGE: MUNGE has a buffer overflow in message unpacking allows key leakage and credential forgery     (CVE-2026-25506)

    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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : munge (RHSA-2026:3010)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299627

Version 1.1