Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-54873

high Nessus Plugin ID 351158

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.

- Issue summary: QUIC process may keep memory for QUIC packet buffer for much longer period than necessary.
Impact summary: Remote peer can exploit this vulnerability by sending maliciously crafted packets, making the local QUIC stack to keep the memory for packet buffers allocated. The time for which the memory remains allocated is entirely under the control of the potentially malicious remote peer. CWE: CWE-770:
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: To save copy operation from the packet buffer to the stream reassemble buffer the QUIC stack leaves the stream data on the packet buffer waiting to be copied to a buffer provided by the local receiving application. The QUIC stack releases a reference to the packet buffer only after the data are copied to the application buffer. This design is more efficient for legitimate data transfers but enables an attacker to allocate a lot more memory than actually required by the data kept in the receiving stream buffer. To mitigate the vulnerability, the QUIC stack now calculates and monitors memory overhead for every stream. The memory overhead for a single stream frame is calculated as a difference between the size of the whole packet that carries the stream frame and the size of the stream frame itself. The memory overhead for a single stream frame is added to the total (cumulative) memory overhead QUIC stack keeps for each stream. Once the cumulative memory overhead exceeds 64kB, the QUIC stack moves the stream frame data from the packet buffer to the stream buffer, starting with the next packet received. FIPS impact: no The FIPS module is not affected as the QUIC implementation is outside of the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. (CVE-2026-54873)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 351158

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_54873.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/29/2026

Updated: 9/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 95.89

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54873

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aavmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-openssl10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-openssl11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-tools-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mokutil, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ovmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-aa64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-ia32, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-signed, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-unsigned-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-unsigned-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aavmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-openssl10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-openssl11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-tools-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mokutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-aa64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-ia32, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-signed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-unsigned-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-unsigned-x64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-x64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim

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: 9/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54873

Detections

Analytics