RHEL 9 : acl (RHSA-2026:42736)

high Nessus Plugin ID 328857

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for acl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:42736 advisory.

Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to define fine-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories. The acl packages contain the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

Security Fix(es):

* acl: Symlink traversal privilege escalation via libacl functions (CVE-2026-54369)

* acl: TOCTOU Symlink Traversal via getfacl/setfacl (CVE-2026-54370)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL acl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:42736.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 328857

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-42736.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/21/2026

Updated: 7/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.63

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54369

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Threat Score: 5.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:acl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libacl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libacl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54369, CVE-2026-54370

CWE: 367, 59

RHSA: 2026:42736

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