RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2026:97533)

high Nessus Plugin ID 378208

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:97533 advisory.

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

* golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted AES-GCM packet decoder inputs (CVE-2026-46597)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* When using `--mount` in `podman run` results can be inconsistent, especially on /var/tmp (JIRA:RHEL-154348)

* [RFE] SELinux confined users unable to start podman.socket systemd user service (JIRA:RHEL-132875)

* [RFE] Mounting of NFS Quadlet volume fails with permission denied (JIRA:RHEL-145863)

* [RFE] podman API socket to support TLS/mTLS (JIRA:RHEL-91221)

* Rebase podman to the latest upstream release [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:RHEL-168737)

* podman does not clean up all files and leaves orphaned files consuming disk space [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:RHEL-173976)

* [FJ9.8 Bug]: [REG]The podman-remote save command fails for rootless users. (JIRA:RHEL-186006)

* podman: rebase to 5.8.5 (JIRA:RHEL-212537)

* [FJ9.9 Bug]: [REG]The podman rm command can accidentally delete containers even though it is mounted by Buildah when used by a rootless user in remote. (JIRA:RHEL-211092)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 378208

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-97533.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2026

Updated: 11/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

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: 11/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46597

CWE: 681

RHSA: 2026:97533

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