Amazon Linux 2 : amazon-ecr-credential-helper (ALASECS-2026-146)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 371838

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of amazon-ecr-credential-helper installed on the remote host is prior to 0.12.0-5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2026-146 advisory.

The HTTP/2 server could refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data.A malicious client could exploit this to bypass the configured connection- level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.The HTTP/2 server now waits to refund connection- level flow control for reset streams until after the request handler is complete.

NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81743NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/31dc9e2449e394439498142451627af52626d7c4 (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6e049521882c944afc1e519a83971ec421dc2974 (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-78663)

When parsing a Range header containing a large number of small ranges, FileServer(FS), ServeContent, and ServeFile(FS) could consume an excessive amount of CPU.

These functions now ignore Range headers containing more than 200 ranges.The limit is controlled by the new httpservecontentmaxranges=GODEBUG setting. Setting GODEBUG=httpservecontentmaxranges=0 disables the limit.

NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81858NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/ababc3cd873d8acce1777268aa7a817e6b672028 (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/eb25b4e532c5a01f99ef860ec66743a8783f992b (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-78667)

When an HTTP server handler sent a 2xx response to an HTTP/1 CONNECT request and returned without hijacking the connection, the server improperly continued to read and serve requests from the connection.
Since a 2xx response to an HTTP/1 CONNECT converts the connection into a tunnel, the server should not treat the connection as continuing to contain HTTP.The impact of this misbehavior is mostly limited to potential request smuggling, where an intermediate proxy considers the data on the connection to be tunneled and the server considers it to be HTTP.The HTTP/1 server now always closes a connection after responding to a CONNECT request, regardless of the response status.

NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81744NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/e92229e24a387cc006a750af176b07a459ba71a1 (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/087de1ff08ea620ac2f6ae26c939454cb793883a (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-94439)

When a JavaScript template literal contains consecutive expressions, the context tracking state was not properly reset upon entering a new expression.We now ensure that template-literal expression entries correctly reset context variables so all subsequent regular expression literals are accurately recognized and escaped.

NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81821NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b26d150e6985f804826f4fcb1aa33aa81e700b52 (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/e59c03e695f2eaa26e308f756c83773afb034e47 (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-94448)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'yum update amazon-ecr-credential-helper' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2ECS-2026-146' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 371838

File Name: al2_ALASECS-2026-146.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2026

Updated: 10/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 92.98

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-78663

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amazon-ecr-credential-helper-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amazon-ecr-credential-helper

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-78663, CVE-2026-78667, CVE-2026-94439, CVE-2026-94448

IAVB: 2026-B-0296-S

Detections

Analytics