Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-94114

high Nessus Plugin ID 363801

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.

- Symbolic name not mapping to correct class. BCEL caches attacker-controlled classes under their self- declared names without validating the requested name, allowing subsequent lookups and name-keyed verification results to refer to a different class. This issue affects Apache Commons BCEL: before 6.13.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 6.13.0, which fixes the issue. (CVE-2026-94114)

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-2026-94114

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-94114

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-94114

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 363801

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_94114.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/7/2026

Updated: 10/23/2026

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

Percentile: 23.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-94114

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bcel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-16, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-crac, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-21-crac, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-21, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-25, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bcel-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bcel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:maven-shared-jar-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:maven-shared-jar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bcel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcel-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-shared-jar-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-shared-jar

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: 10/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-94114