Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-119189

medium Nessus Plugin ID 374242

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, node-forge enforced an X.509 CA certificate's basicConstraints.pathLenConstraint only when that certificate also carried a keyUsage extension. Exploitation requires a path-length-constrained CA without keyUsage that chains to a root trusted by the application, and an attacker who holds that CA's private key or obtains a subordinate CA certificate from it. The attacker could then construct a chain exceeding the declared path length that still passed pki.verifyCertificateChain(). Public web PKI CA certificates normally include keyUsage; private PKIs with CA certificates created without it are more likely to be affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1. (CVE-2026-119189)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 374242

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_119189.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/30/2026

Updated: 10/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-119189

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cockpit-ha-cluster, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-azure-monitor, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-cloudwatch, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-elasticsearch, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-graphite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-influxdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-loki, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-mssql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-opentsdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-postgres, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-prometheus, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-stackdriver, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcs-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-ha-cluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-azure-monitor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-cloudwatch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-elasticsearch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-graphite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-influxdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-loki, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-mssql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-opentsdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-postgres, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-prometheus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-stackdriver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcs-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-119189

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