RockyLinux 9 : haproxy (RLSA-2026:55772)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 337097

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-2026:55772 advisory.

* haproxy: HAProxy: Denial of Service via HPACK dynamic table insertions (CVE-2026-55204)

* haproxy: HAProxy: Response smuggling due to integer overflow in FastCGI record length handling (CVE-2026-55203)

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 haproxy, haproxy-debuginfo and / or haproxy-debugsource packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 337097

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-55772.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/18/2026

Updated: 8/18/2026

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-55203

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Threat Score: 6.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:haproxy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:haproxy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:haproxy

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-55203, CVE-2026-55204

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