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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-5079

high Nessus Plugin ID 341761

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.

 - Impact: multer versions 1.0.0 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service via deeply nested field names in multipart form data. The append-field dependency parses bracket notation in field names with no limit on nesting depth, allowing an attacker to force allocation of deeply nested object structures that consume CPU and memory. A single HTTP request with a crafted multipart body is sufficient to exploit this. Patches: Users should upgrade to multer 2.2.0 (2.x line) or 3.0.0-alpha.2 (3.x prerelease) and configure the new limits.fieldNestingDepth option to the minimum depth their application requires. Workarounds: Set limits.fields to a reasonable value to reduce the number of fields an attacker can send per request. This does not fully mitigate the issue but limits the impact. (CVE-2026-5079)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-5079

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 341761

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_5079.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5079

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-admin-cli, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-init, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-manufacturing-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-owner-cli, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-owner-onboarding-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fdo-rendezvous-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox-x11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-admin-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-init, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-manufacturing-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-owner-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-owner-onboarding-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fdo-rendezvous-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

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: 6/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-5079