Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-19012

medium Nessus Plugin ID 333559

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.

- Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.18.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an authenticated denial of service in the Enterprise-to-Community Edition downgrade path that may allow an authorized caller to crash the Consul server. A caller with config-entry write permission can submit a service-router configuration entry that causes the agent to exit unexpectedly. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-19012, is fixed in Consul 2.0.3 and Consul Enterprise 1.21.17, 1.22.11, and 2.0.3. (CVE-2026-19012)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 333559

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_19012.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/9/2026

Updated: 8/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-19012

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:consul

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-19012

Detections

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