Oracle Linux 8 : curl (ELSA-2026-92368)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 373919

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2026-92368 advisory.

- fix incomplete mTLS config in connection reuse (CVE-2026-8932)
- fix cookie injection via trailing dot super cookies (CVE-2026-8924)
- fix digest auth state leak on origin or credential change (CVE-2026-11856)
- add sasl service name to connection reuse checks (CVE-2026-8458)
- detect proxy changes read from environment (CVE-2026-8927)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-92368.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 373919

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-92368.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/29/2026

Updated: 10/29/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.41

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-11856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11856, CVE-2026-8458, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-8927, CVE-2026-8932

IAVA: 2026-A-0627-S