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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-89090

high Nessus Plugin ID 345676

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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.

 - An unrecovered panic in the event stream header decoder in Amazon AWS SDK for Go v2 before release-2026-03-23 might allow an unauthenticated remote actor to terminate the consuming application process via a crafted event stream response frame containing a header value type outside the valid range.
 To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to release-2026-03-23 or later, and patch any forked or derivative code. (CVE-2026-89090)

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-2026-89090

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 345676

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_89090.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/14/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

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: 23.65

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:butane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition-edge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition-grub, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition-validate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:image-builder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opentelemetry-collector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer

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: 9/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-89090