Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-121439

medium Nessus Plugin ID 375611

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.

- Wasmtime 46.0.0 before 48.0.7 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.4 contains a response splitting vulnerability in wasi-http p3 that allows guests to set unvalidated content-length headers. Malicious wasip3 guests can splice an existing body into a new response with an incorrect content-length to perform response splitting or injection attacks. (CVE-2026-121439)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-121439

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 375611

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_121439.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/3/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-121439

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtree-sitter-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtree-sitter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virt-firmware-rs

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: 11/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-121439