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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-4430

medium Nessus Plugin ID 313070

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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.

 - Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice via crafted OOXML documents with mismatched encryption salt parameters. This issue affects LibreOffice: from 26.2 before 26.2.3, from 25.8 before 25.8.7. (CVE-2026-4430)

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-2026-4430

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 313070

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_4430.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/7/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4430

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4430

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4430

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libreoffice

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4430