Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-41889

low Nessus Plugin ID 313432

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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.

- pgx is a PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go. Prior to version 5.9.2, SQL injection can occur when the non-default simple protocol is used, a dollar quoted string literal is used in the SQL query, that string literal contains text that would be would be interpreted as a placeholder outside of a string literal, and the value of that placeholder is controllable by the attacker. This issue has been patched in version 5.9.2. (CVE-2026-41889)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 313432

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_41889.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/8/2026

Updated: 7/30/2026

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: 58.11

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-2026-41889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.3

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-github-jackc-pgx-v5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:go-fdo-server-manufacturer, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:go-fdo-server-owner, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:go-fdo-server-rendezvous, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:go-fdo-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-github-jackc-pgx-v5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-fdo-server-manufacturer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-fdo-server-owner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-fdo-server-rendezvous, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-fdo-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer

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: 4/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41889

Detections

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