RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16 EUS (RHSA-2026:92858)

high Nessus Plugin ID 373932

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Satellite 6.16 EUS.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:92858 advisory.

This advisory provides security fixes for affected packages used by Red Hat Satellite. The updates address the vulnerabilities described below.

Security Fix(es):

* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Denial of Service via malformed RPC requests in gRPC-Go (CVE-2026-84445)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Denial of Service via multiple ECH outer extension references in crypto/tls (CVE-2026-97031)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Denial of Service via crafted HTTP Range headers in Go (CVE-2026-78667)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Denial of Service via excessive HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames in net/http (CVE-2026-78669)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Man-in-the-middle attacks via untrusted intermediate certificates in crypto/x509 (CVE-2026-111943)
* openvox-server: Denial of Service via unchecked DTLS handshake reassembler buffer allocation in Bouncy Castle for Java (CVE-2026-59646)
* openvox-server: CPU Denial of Service via unbounded numeric parsing in jackson-databind (CVE-2026-68497)
* openvox-server: HTTP request smuggling via crafted chunked requests in Jetty (CVE-2026-19203)
* openvox-server: Denial of Service via regular expression backtracking in jackson-core (CVE-2026-89407)
* openvox-server: Denial of Service via unbounded StringBuilder growth during malformed token processing in jackson-core (CVE-2026-89425)
* openvox-server: Access control bypass via case-sensitive host filtering in Eclipse Jetty (CVE-2026-18660)
* openvox-agent: heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072)
* openvox-agent: invalid pointer dereference in CMP server via crafted protectionAlg (CVE-2026-63076)
* openvox-agent: curl: Cookie injection via malicious HTTP server using super cookies (CVE-2026-8924)
* puppet-agent: curl: Cookie injection via malicious HTTP server using super cookies (CVE-2026-8924)
* puppet-agent: heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072)
* puppetserver: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via regular expression backtracking (CVE-2026-89407)
* puppetserver: Jetty: HTTP request smuggling via crafted chunked requests (CVE-2026-19203)
* puppetserver: jackson-databind: CPU Denial of Service via unbounded numeric parsing (CVE-2026-68497)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: golang: Denial of Service via memory limit bypass in multipart form parsing (CVE-2026-94440)
* openvox-server: jackson-core: Denial of Service via incomplete fix in async JSON parser (CVE-2026-68494)
* yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: golang.org/x/text: Denial of Service via invalid UTF-8 input (CVE-2026-56852)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL Satellite 6.16 EUS package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:92858.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92858

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2496765

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2504233

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510193

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511026

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2517560

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2517561

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529768

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531964

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2533175

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2538720

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539084

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548334

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548336

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548341

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548344

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2553134

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2556068

http://www.nessus.org/u?d4fea258

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 373932

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-92858.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2026

Updated: 10/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Percentile: 98.16

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2026-59646

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 7.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-18660

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvox-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvox-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yggdrasil-worker-forwarder

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111943, CVE-2026-18660, CVE-2026-19203, CVE-2026-56852, CVE-2026-59646, CVE-2026-63072, CVE-2026-63076, CVE-2026-68494, CVE-2026-68497, CVE-2026-78667, CVE-2026-78669, CVE-2026-84445, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-89407, CVE-2026-89425, CVE-2026-94440, CVE-2026-97031

CWE: 1050, 125, 131, 1333, 178, 295, 400, 444, 476, 565, 770, 787, 835

IAVA: 2026-A-0998

RHSA: 2026:92858