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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-22675

medium Nessus Plugin ID 305626

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

 - OCS Inventory NG Server version 2.12.3 and prior contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript by submitting malicious User-Agent HTTP headers to the /ocsinventory endpoint. Attackers can register rogue agents or craft requests with malicious User-Agent values that are stored without sanitation and rendered with insufficient encoding in the web console, leading to arbitrary JavaScript execution in the browsers of authenticated users viewing the statistics dashboard. (CVE-2026-22675)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-22675

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 305626

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_22675.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 4/8/2026

Updated: 4/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22675

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ocsinventory-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22675