Oracle Linux 9 : firewalld (ELSA-2026-67585)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 346416

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2026-67585 advisory.

[1.3.4-20.0.1]
- Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat high availaibility reference found in cockpit UI [Orabug: 30257573]
- discard empty RH-Satellite-6.xml [Orabug: 30328734]
- Remove capsule file as well, since it references removed config [Orabug: 33513329]

[1.3.4-20]
- fix(policy): use PK_ACTION_CONFIG for set{ZoneSettings2,PolicySettings} (CVE-2026-4948)

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-67585.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 346416

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-67585.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

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:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:8:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firewall-applet, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firewall-config, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firewalld-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firewalld, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-firewall

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4948