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Amazon Linux 2 : qt5-qtbase (ALAS-2026-4060)

high Nessus Plugin ID 374326

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of qt5-qtbase installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.3-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-4060 advisory.

 An attacker able to supply a crafted XML document to an application using QXmlStreamReader can cause disproportionate CPU consumption during parsing, making the application unresponsive (denial of service).
 Exploitation requires only that the application parse attacker-influenced XML; no authentication, privileges, or user interaction beyond ingesting the input are needed. There is no loss of confidentiality or integrity -- no data disclosure, data modification, or code execution -- and the impact is contained to the affected process. (CVE-2026-16762)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update qt5-qtbase' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2026-4060' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2026-4060.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-16762.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 374326

File Name: al2_ALAS-2026-4060.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2026

Updated: 10/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.56

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-16762

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase-static, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:qt5-qtbase

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-16762