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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-17914

medium Nessus Plugin ID 330983

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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.

 - Side-channel information leakage in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2026-17914)

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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-17914

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 330983

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_17914.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/30/2026

Updated: 9/22/2026

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: 3

Percentile: 23.62

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-17914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkit2gtk3-plugin-process-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkit2gtk3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4-jsc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4-plugin-process-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:webkitgtk4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-plugin-process-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-plugin-process-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4

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: 7/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-17914