SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2026:5071-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 376955

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:5071-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-8932: incomplete mTLS config matching in conn reuse (bsc#1268414).
- CVE-2026-11856: cross-origin Digest auth state leak (bsc#1268426).
- CVE-2026-12064: proto-default skips SSH verification (bsc#1268427).
- CVE-2026-19931: Negotiate ambient user conn reuse (bsc#1277478).
- CVE-2026-86409: stale SigV4 headers sent unintended (bsc#1285031).
- CVE-2026-86410: redirect to SFTP or SCP bypasses host verification (bsc#1285030).
- CVE-2026-86414: leaking host credentials to HTTP proxy (bsc#1285026).
- CVE-2026-87864: IMAP APPEND plus CRLF conversion command injection (bsc#1285021).
- CVE-2026-92388: FTP wildcard write callback mixup (bsc#1285016).
- CVE-2026-92389: TFTP direction confusion (bsc#1285015).
- CVE-2026-92391: curl_mime_free stack overflow by recursion (bsc#1285013).
- CVE-2026-94266: password leak in CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL (bsc#1285010).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected curl, libcurl-devel, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 376955

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5071-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE 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: 6.9

Percentile: 96.41

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-19931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11856, CVE-2026-12064, CVE-2026-19931, CVE-2026-8458, CVE-2026-86409, CVE-2026-86410, CVE-2026-86414, CVE-2026-87864, CVE-2026-8932, CVE-2026-92388, CVE-2026-92389, CVE-2026-92391, CVE-2026-94266

IAVA: 2026-A-0627-S, 2026-A-0932-S, 2026-A-1143

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5071-1

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