RHEL 9 : perl-Date-Manip (RHSA-2026:56970)

high Nessus Plugin ID 338169

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-Date-Manip.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:56970 advisory.

Date::Manip is a series of modules designed to make any common date/time operation easy to do. Operations such as comparing two times, determining a data a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. It deals with time as it is used in the Gregorian calendar (the one currently in use) with full support for time changes due to daylight saving time.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-Date-Manip: Date::Manip for Perl: Denial of Service via CPU exhaustion in date parsing (CVE-2026-60075)

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 perl-Date-Manip package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:56970.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 338169

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-56970.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/19/2026

Updated: 8/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-60075

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-date-manip

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: 8/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-60075

CWE: 1333

RHSA: 2026:56970

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