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RHEL 10 : pipewire (RHSA-2026:47083)

high Nessus Plugin ID 330434

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pipewire.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:47083 advisory.

 PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

 Security Fix(es):

 * pipewire: PipeWire: Sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution via malicious library loading (CVE-2026-5674)

 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 pipewire package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:47083.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47083

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455341

http://www.nessus.org/u?c3f50881

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 330434

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-47083.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2026

Updated: 7/28/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.05

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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:10.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-alsa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-gstreamer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-module-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-plugin-libcamera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pipewire

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: 7/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-5674

CWE: 427

RHSA: 2026:47083