RockyLinux 9 : curl (RLSA-2026:55439)

high Nessus Plugin ID 335981

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:55439 advisory.

* curl: curl: Authentication bypass due to incorrect connection reuse with Negotiate authentication (CVE-2026-1965)

* curl: curl: Information disclosure via OAuth2 bearer token leakage during HTTP(S) redirect (CVE-2026-3783)

* curl: curl: Man-in-the-middle attack via SSH host key bypass (CVE-2026-9547)

* curl: curl: Insecure connection establishment due to TLS configuration mismatch (CVE-2026-8286)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 335981

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-55439.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/17/2026

Updated: 8/17/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9547

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8286

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-minimal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-minimal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1965, CVE-2026-3783, CVE-2026-8286, CVE-2026-9547

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