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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-112914

medium Nessus Plugin ID 369005

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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.

 - filelock is a platform-independent file lock for Python. From 4.1.0 until 4.2.1, SoftFileLock can restore a stale marker by name after moving it aside, allowing another local user with rename access in a non- sticky lock directory to swap in a symbolic link and, on a runtime that follows the link and a same- filesystem target, make the lock user hard-link one of its files into the lock directory. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1. (CVE-2026-112914)

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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-112914

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 369005

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_112914.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/21/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.44

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-112914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-filelock

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-112914