RHEL 10 : python-jwcrypto (RHSA-2026:98061)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 378889

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python-jwcrypto.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:98061 advisory.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* jwcrypto: jwcrypto: Denial of Service via malformed JWE tokens (CVE-2026-80179)

* jwcrypto: jwcrypto: denial of service via O(n^2) duplicate check on unbounded JWK key_ops array (CVE-2026-92091)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL python-jwcrypto package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:98061.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 378889

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-98061.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.65

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-92091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:10.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jwcrypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-jwcrypto

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: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-80179, CVE-2026-92091

CWE: 407, 770

RHSA: 2026:98061

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