openSUSE 16: helm / helm-bash-completion / helm-fish-completion / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21422-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 329724

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-2026:21422-1 advisory.

This update for helm fixes the following issues

- Update to version 3.21.3
- CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation (bsc#1266598).
- CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: infinite loop on truncated/invalid UTF-8 input (bsc#1271997).

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 helm, helm-bash-completion, helm-fish-completion and / or helm-zsh-completion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1266598

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1271997

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39821

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56852

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 329724

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21422-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2026

Updated: 7/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

Percentile: 57.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-39821

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:helm-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:helm-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:helm-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:helm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-39821, CVE-2026-56852