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GLSA-202610-01 : ca-certificates: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
medium Nessus Plugin ID 369494
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Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202610-01 (ca-certificates: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority)A vulnerability has been discovered in ca-certificates. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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
All ca-certificates users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-misc/ca-certificates-20260816.3.125
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 369494
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202610-01.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 10/21/2026
Updated: 10/21/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
Percentile: 96.21
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.1
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-111943
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ca-certificates
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2026
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2026-111943