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Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-11.0.1.3)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 324126
Synopsis
The Nutanix AHV host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities .Description
The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to AHV-11.0.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-11.0.1.3 advisory.- A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings. (CVE-2025-14087)
- In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation.
(CVE-2026-35535)
- LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. In versions 1.2.1 through 1.6.55, `png_set_tRNS` and `png_set_PLTE` each alias a heap-allocated buffer between `png_struct` and `png_info`, sharing a single allocation across two structs with independent lifetimes. The `trans_alpha` aliasing has been present since at least libpng 1.0, and the `palette` aliasing since at least 1.2.1. Both affect all prior release lines `png_set_tRNS` sets `png_ptr->trans_alpha = info_ptr->trans_alpha` (256-byte buffer) and `png_set_PLTE` sets `info_ptr->palette = png_ptr->palette` (768-byte buffer). In both cases, calling `png_free_data` (with `PNG_FREE_TRNS` or `PNG_FREE_PLTE`) frees the buffer through `info_ptr` while the corresponding `png_ptr` pointer remains dangling. Subsequent row-transform functions dereference and, in some code paths, write to the freed memory. A second call to `png_set_tRNS` or `png_set_PLTE` has the same effect, because both functions call `png_free_data` internally before reallocating the `info_ptr` buffer. Version 1.6.56 fixes the issue. (CVE-2026-33416)
- A flaw was found in rsync. It could allow a server to enumerate the contents of an arbitrary file from the client's machine. This issue occurs when files are being copied from a client to a server. During this process, the rsync server will send checksums of local data to the client to compare with in order to determine what data needs to be sent to the server. By sending specially constructed checksum values for arbitrary files, an attacker may be able to reconstruct the data of those files byte-by-byte based on the responses from the client. (CVE-2024-12086)
- A malicious client acting as the receiver of an rsync file transfer can trigger an out of bounds read of a heap based buffer, via a negative array index. The malicious rsync client requires at least read access to the remote rsync module in order to trigger the issue. (CVE-2025-10158)
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 Nutanix AHV software to the recommended version. Before upgrading: if this cluster is registered with Prism Central, ensure that Prism Central has been upgraded first to a compatible version. Refer to the Software Product Interoperability page on the Nutanix portal.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 324126
File Name: nutanix_NXSA-AHV-11_0_1_3.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Family: Misc.
Published: 7/1/2026
Updated: 7/1/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.7
Percentile: 99.06
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14087
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.1
Threat Score: 8.1
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-6100
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:nutanix:ahv
Required KB Items: Host/Nutanix/Data/Node/Version, Host/Nutanix/Data/Node/Type
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-12086, CVE-2025-10158, CVE-2025-14087, CVE-2025-14512, CVE-2026-33416, CVE-2026-33636, CVE-2026-35385, CVE-2026-35386, CVE-2026-35387, CVE-2026-35388, CVE-2026-35414, CVE-2026-35535, CVE-2026-39979, CVE-2026-40164, CVE-2026-41035, CVE-2026-4786, CVE-2026-4878, CVE-2026-6100