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RHEL 8 : git-lfs (RHSA-2026:16875)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 314495

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for git-lfs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:16875 advisory.

 Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server.

 Security Fix(es):

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

 * golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root (CVE-2026-32282)

 * crypto/tls: golang: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283)

 * crypto/x509: crypto/tls: golang: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280)

 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 git-lfs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:16875.

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=2456336

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456338

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456339

http://www.nessus.org/u?78599395

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 314495

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-16875.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2026

Updated: 5/13/2026

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-32282

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-lfs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 5/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-32280, CVE-2026-32282, CVE-2026-32283

CWE: 1286, 367, 764, 770

RHSA: 2026:16875