RHEL 10 : cockpit-image-builder (RHSA-2026:71543)

high Nessus Plugin ID 349732

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for cockpit-image-builder.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:71543 advisory.

The image-builder-frontend generates custom images suitable for deploying systems or uploading to the cloud. It integrates into Cockpit as a frontend for osbuild.

Security Fix(es):

* fast-uri: fast-uri: Server-Side Request Forgery via repeated hostname percent-decoding (CVE-2026-75899)

* fast-uri: fast-uri: Server-side request forgery via malformed IPv6 normalization (CVE-2026-75975)

* fast-uri: fast-uri: URI parsing flaw enables server-side request forgery and redirects (CVE-2026-76172)

* fast-uri: fast-uri: Authority Injection via Unvalidated Port Serialization (CVE-2026-84292)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL cockpit-image-builder package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:71543.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71543

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2521778

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2521779

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2521798

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527747

http://www.nessus.org/u?49ed3313

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 349732

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-71543.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2026

Updated: 9/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-image-builder

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-75899, CVE-2026-75975, CVE-2026-76172, CVE-2026-84292

CWE: 140, 76, 918

RHSA: 2026:71543