RHEL 10 : postgresql16-pgvector (RHSA-2026:95521)

high Nessus Plugin ID 376908

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for postgresql16-pgvector.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:95521 advisory.

Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres. Supports L2 distance, inner product, and cosine distance

Security Fix(es):

* pgvector: pgvector: Arbitrary code execution via out-of-bounds write during IVFFlat index build (CVE-2026-103484)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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

Update the RHEL postgresql16-pgvector package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:95521.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 376908

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-95521.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-103484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pgvector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql16-pgvector

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-103484

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2026:95521

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