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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-52747

high Nessus Plugin ID 326376

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 3.0.16, the multipart/form-data request body parser in libmodsecurity silently removes embedded line breaks from non-file form-field values before exporting them to ARGS and ARGS_POST because src/request_body_processor/multipart.cc overwrites reserved bytes in m_reserve instead of appending the current buffer. This creates a parser differential between ModSecurity and backend applications that preserve line breaks in form fields, allowing rules that inspect ARGS or ARGS_POST to miss payloads whose dangerous syntax depends on a line break. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.16. (CVE-2026-52747)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-52747

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 326376

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_52747.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/11/2026

Updated: 7/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.23

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-52747

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mod_security-mlogc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_security, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mod_security, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_security-mlogc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-52747