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AlmaLinux 9 : firewalld (ALSA-2026:67585)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 346301

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:67585 advisory.

 * firewalld: firewalld: Local unprivileged user can modify firewall state due to D-Bus setter mis- authorization (CVE-2026-4948)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67585

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-67585.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 346301

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-67585.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firewall-applet, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firewall-config, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firewalld-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firewalld, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-firewall

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4948

CWE: 279

RHSA: 2026:67585