RockyLinux 10 : curl (RLSA-2026:69125)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 348786

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:69125 advisory.

* libcurl: libcurl: Security feature bypass due to improper mTLS connection reuse (CVE-2026-8932)

* curl: curl: Information disclosure via incorrect .netrc password lookup (CVE-2026-8926)

* curl: libcurl: Unauthorized connection reuse due to a logical error (CVE-2026-8458)

* curl: curl: Cookie injection via malicious HTTP server using super cookies (CVE-2026-8924)

* curl: curl: Information disclosure via incorrect Digest authentication header reuse (CVE-2026-11856)

* libcurl: libcurl: Information disclosure due to failure to clear proxy authentication credentials (CVE-2026-9079)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 348786

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-69125.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/22/2026

Updated: 9/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.78

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9079

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-minimal-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libcurl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11856, CVE-2026-8458, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-8926, CVE-2026-8932, CVE-2026-9079

Detections

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