RockyLinux 8 : pki-deps:10.6 (RLSA-2026:90909)

high Nessus Plugin ID 373679

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:90909 advisory.

* com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via unbounded StringBuilder growth during malformed token processing (CVE-2026-89425)

* com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind: tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind: Jackson-databind:
Denial of Service via quadratic forward-reference completion (CVE-2026-91777)

* com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: tools.jackson.core/jackson-core: jackson-core: Denial of Service via excessively long JSON property names (CVE-2026-68498)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 373679

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-90909.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/29/2026

Updated: 10/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-91777

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:apache-commons-collections, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:apache-commons-lang, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:apache-commons-net, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bea-stax-api, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bea-stax, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-fastinfoset, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-jaxb-api, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-jaxb-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-jaxb-runtime, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-jaxb-txw2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:glassfish-jaxb, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-annotations, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-core, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-jaxrs-json-provider, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-jaxrs-providers, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jackson-modules-base, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jakarta-commons-httpclient, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:javassist-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:javassist, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pki-servlet-engine, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:relaxngdatatype, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:slf4j-jdk14, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:slf4j, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:stax-ex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:velocity, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xalan-j2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xerces-j2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xml-commons-apis, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xml-commons-resolver, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xmlstreambuffer, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:xsom

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-68498, CVE-2026-89425, CVE-2026-91777

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