RHEL 9 : librsvg2 (RHSA-2026:86921)

high Nessus Plugin ID 370138

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for librsvg2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:86921 advisory.

The librsvg2 packages provide a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) library based on the libart library.

Security Fix(es):

* librsvg: Use-after-free when XML includes have duplicated entities (CVE-2026-96889,RUSTSEC-2026-0305)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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

Update the RHEL librsvg2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:86921.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:86921

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539279

http://www.nessus.org/u?9db7e378

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 370138

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-86921.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2026

Updated: 10/21/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-96889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:librsvg2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-96889

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2026:86921