openSUSE 16: curl / curl-fish-completion / curl-zsh-completion / libcurl-devel / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21272-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 326418

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21272-1 advisory.

This update for curl fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-8286: wrong STARTTLS connection reuse (bsc#1268402).
- CVE-2026-8458: wrong reuse for different services (bsc#1268407).
- CVE-2026-8924: traling dot domain super cookie (bsc#1268409).
- CVE-2026-8927: env-set cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (bsc#1268413).
- CVE-2026-9079: stale proxy password leak (bsc#1268415).
- CVE-2026-9080: UAF after pause in socket callback (bsc#1268416).
- CVE-2026-9545: exposing HTTP/3 early data (bsc#1268417).
- CVE-2026-9547: SSH improper host validation (bsc#1268420).
- CVE-2026-10536: HTTP/2 stream-dependency tree UAF (bsc#1268422).
- CVE-2026-12064: proto-default skips SSH verification (bsc#1268427).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 326418

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21272-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2026

Updated: 7/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.06

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-2026-9079

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10536, CVE-2026-12064, CVE-2026-8286, CVE-2026-8458, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-8927, CVE-2026-9079, CVE-2026-9080, CVE-2026-9545, CVE-2026-9547

IAVA: 2026-A-0627

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