RHEL 9 : compat-openssl11 (RHSA-2026:44438)

high Nessus Plugin ID 329231

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for compat-openssl11.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:44438 advisory.

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. This version of OpenSSL package contains only the libraries from the 1.1.1 version and is provided for compatibility with previous releases.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify() (CVE-2026-45447)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL compat-openssl11 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:44438.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 329231

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-44438.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/23/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.47

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-openssl11

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: 7/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-45447

CWE: 825

RHSA: 2026:44438

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