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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2026:1424-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 307416

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1424-1 advisory.

 This update for polkit fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2026-4897: Fixed possible OOM condition via specially crafted input to `polkit-agent-helper-1` (bsc#1260859).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1260859

http://www.nessus.org/u?c805af9c

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4897

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 307416

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1424-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2026

Updated: 4/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit-agent-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pkexec, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit-gobject-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4897

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1424-1