Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-102558

high Nessus Plugin ID 351181

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.

- A flaw was found in libsoup. When max-incoming-payload-size is unlimited (0), SoupWebsocketConnection could grow its incoming GByteArray based on an attacker-controlled frame length until the length wrapped, causing a heap buffer overflow while reading frame data. (CVE-2026-102558)

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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-102558

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 351181

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_102558.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/29/2026

Updated: 9/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.44

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-102558

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsoup3-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsoup3-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsoup3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libsoup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup3-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup3-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsoup

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-2026-102558