openSUSE 16 Security Update : sshfs (openSUSE-SU-2026:20915-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 320416

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20915-1 advisory.

Changes in sshfs:

- Update to 3.7.6:
- Added new maintainer: abhinavagarwal07 Abhinav Agarwal
- CVE-2026-47187: Fixed critical vulnerability - Symlink Escape: Rogue SFTP Server to Local File Read/Write), credit to abhinavagarwal07 (bsc#1267017)
- New -o contain_symlinks and -o no_contain_symlinks to control symlink containment behavior
- CVE-2026-48711: Fixed high severity vulnerability - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection'), credit to abhinavagarwal07 (bsc#1267016)
- Fixed null-deref warning in tokenize_on_space, promote strict-warnings to required
- Added a number of tests in CI, including rename, chmod, fsync, statvfs values, error paths, option coverage
- Fixed malformed SFTP reply handling

- Update to 3.7.5:
* Implement connect to vsock
* use latest major version for actions/checkout
* Fix memleak in cache after readlink
* Fill stat info when returning cached data for readdir
* ipv6 support for directport connection
- reverts to original fork

- Don't globstar files in shared directory _bindir.

- build the man page

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected sshfs package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 320416

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20915-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-48711

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-47187, CVE-2026-48711

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