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openSUSE 16: cockpit / cockpit-bridge / cockpit-devel / cockpit-firewalld / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21208-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325037

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21208-1 advisory.

 This update for cockpit fixes the following issue

 - CVE-2026-4802: remote command execution via unsanitized user-controlled parameters within crafted links in system logs UI (bsc#1265040).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1265040

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4802

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325037

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21208-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2026

Updated: 7/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.96

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:cockpit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-kdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-ws, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-ws-selinux, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-bridge, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-firewalld, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-storaged, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-networkmanager, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-system, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-packagekit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-selinux

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: 7/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4802