RHEL 10 : rhc-worker-playbook (RHSA-2026:10169)

high Nessus Plugin ID 309975

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rhc-worker-playbook.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:10169 advisory.

A worker for yggdrasil that receives Ansible playbooks and executes them against the local host.

Security Fix(es):

* crypto/x509: Incorrect enforcement of email constraints in crypto/x509 (CVE-2026-27137)

* net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url (CVE-2026-25679)

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 rhc-worker-playbook package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:10169.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445356

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445345

http://www.nessus.org/u?b9443e9e

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10169

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 309975

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-10169.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2026

Updated: 4/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rhc-worker-playbook

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: 4/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-27137

CWE: 1286, 295

RHSA: 2026:10169