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AlmaLinux 9 : opencryptoki (ALSA-2026:28256)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 323056

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:28256 advisory.

 * openCryptoki: openCryptoki: Information disclosure and Denial of Service via malformed BER-encoded cryptographic objects (CVE-2026-40253)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28256

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-28256.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 323056

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-28256.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 6/26/2026

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40253

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-ccatok, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-icsftok, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-ep11tok, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-swtok, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:opencryptoki-icatok, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40253

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2026:28256