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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12606

medium Nessus Plugin ID 327174

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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.

 - Eclipse Grizzly in versions before 5.0.2, cannot properly parse the trailer section in malformed trailer header's line, which can be leveraged to perform HTTP request smuggling. Grizzly 5.0.1 supports system properties that enable the behavior that fixes the vulnerability - set org.glassfish.grizzly.http.STRICT_HEADER_NAME_VALIDATION_RFC_9110 and org.glassfish.grizzly.http.STRICT_HEADER_VALUE_VALIDATION_RFC_9110 system properties to true.
 (CVE-2026-12606)

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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-12606

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 327174

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_12606.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/16/2026

Updated: 7/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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-2026-12606

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glassfish

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12606