GLSA-202608-19 : quickjs-ng: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 338225

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202608-19 (quickjs-ng: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in quickjs-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All quickjs-ng users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/quickjs-ng-0.12.0

See Also

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=969863

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202608-19

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 338225

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202608-19.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 8/20/2026

Updated: 8/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.45

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1145

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0821

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0821

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:quickjs-ng

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-0821, CVE-2026-1144, CVE-2026-1145