openSUSE 16 Security Update : elemental-toolkit (openSUSE-SU-2026:20921-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 320411

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20921-1 advisory.

This update for elemental-toolkit fixes the following issue

- CVE-2026-33186: google.golang.org/grpc: authorization bypass due to improper validation of the HTTP/2:
path pseudo- header (bsc#1260277).

Changes:

- Update to v2.3.4:
* 974af043 Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 (bsc#1267168 bsc#1251679)
* ae39c90f Bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.52.0 (bsc#1266187)
- Update to v2.3.3:
* 8b4af274 Avoid pulling binaries with curl
* d46e30f4 Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action to v9
* 02caf200 Bump github.com/spf13/cobra library
* e29e1fbf Bump github.com/jaypipes/ghw library
* 652654e1 Bump github.com/bramvdbogaerde/go-scp library
* f94a0c58 Bump google.golang.org/grpc library (bsc#1260277 CVE-2026-33186)
* dc1a2056 Bump github.com/ulikunitz/xz library
* 337a986c Update headers to 2026
* d6aac085 Switch from TW to Leap 16.0 for green flavor

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 elemental-toolkit package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251679

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1260277

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1266187

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1267168

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33186

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 320411

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20921-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:elemental-toolkit

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33186