The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8890-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu     26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-4271)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTPS proxy connections. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-5119)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly parsed certain chunked HTTP requests. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to bypass security controls. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu     24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-6324)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled proxy authentication credentials. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-66339)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-77014, CVE-2026-77680)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTP/2 connections. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-85197)

    It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTP/2 transfers. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu     24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-85534)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : libsoup vulnerabilities (USN-8890-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 363740

Version 1.2