Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-67407

medium Nessus Plugin ID 350727

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.

- RabbitMQ is a messaging and streaming broker. From 4.0.0 until 4.3.3 and 4.2.9 and 4.1.14 and 4.0.23, Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-44838: escaperegexchar/1 does not escape -, leaving room for an MQTT topic permission bypass. the CVE-2026-44838 fix made expandtopicpermission/2 escape regex metacharacters in expanded topic-permission variables (escaperegex(V)), but escaperegexchar/1 escapes \ ^ $ . | ? + ( ) [ ] { } and omits -. When a topic permission template places {clientid} inside a [...] character class A low- privileged authenticated MQTT user controlling its clientid can broaden topic authorization (read and write) when templates embed {clientid} in a [...] This issue is fixed in versions 4.3.3 and 4.2.9 and 4.1.14 and 4.0.23. (CVE-2026-67407)

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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-67407

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 350727

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_67407.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-67407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

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:U/RL:U/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rabbitmq-server

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-67407