EulerOS 2.0 SP15 : policycoreutils (EulerOS-SA-2026-4006)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 364026

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the policycoreutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

['Hello,\n\nOn Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 12:48:22PM +0200, Matthias Gerstner wrote:', '5) CVE Assignments\n==================\n\nWe approached the upstream SELinux userspace utilities developers and\nsuggested to assign CVEs for the two issues discussed above. Upstream\ninformed us that they don't take care of CVE assignment themselves,\nhowever. Since Red Hat developers are also involved with upstream\ndevelopment, we are currently waiting for an agreement on who will\nassign CVEs to avoid duplicates.', 'we got a response from upstream devs by now and as a result assigned\nCVEs on our end as follows:', '3.1) Local File Deletion Attack Vector in rm_rf()', 'CVE-2026-59676', '3.2) Process Kill Attack Vector in killall()', 'CVE-2026-59677\n\nBest Regards\n\nMatthias\n\n-- \nMatthias Gerstner matthias.gerstner () suse de\nSecurity Engineer', 'GPG Key ID: 0x14C405C971923553\n \nSUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH\nHRB 36809, AG Nrnberg\nGeschftsfhrer: Jochen Jaser, Andrew McDonald'](CVE-2026-59677)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected policycoreutils packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 364026

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2026-4006.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 10/8/2026

Updated: 10/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59677

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:policycoreutils-help, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:policycoreutils-python-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:policycoreutils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-policycoreutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59677

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