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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-114038

medium Nessus Plugin ID 368991

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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.

 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux - device-mapper-multipath: device-mapper-multipath: Information disclosure via malformed format string (CVE-2026-114038)

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-2026-114038

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 368991

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_114038.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/21/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

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: 2.1

Percentile: 8.25

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-114038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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:device-mapper-multipath-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:device-mapper-multipath-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:device-mapper-multipath, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kpartx, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libdmmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libdmmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:device-mapper-multipath-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:device-mapper-multipath-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:device-mapper-multipath-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:device-mapper-multipath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpartx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libdmmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libdmmp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-114038