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RHEL 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2026:95598)

high Nessus Plugin ID 379075

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.8.0-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:95598 advisory.

 The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

 Security Fix(es):

 * JDK: Enhance PKCS5 padding (CVE-2026-83374)

 * JDK: Enhance TLS certificate handling (CVE-2026-83376)

 * JDK: Enhance LDAP logins (CVE-2026-83380)

 * JDK: Enhance SASL Authentication (CVE-2026-83381)

 * JDK: Enhance WebRowSets (CVE-2026-83387)

 * JDK: Enhance HTTP Client Response Handling (CVE-2026-83395)

 * JDK: Enhance Certificate Name Checks (CVE-2026-87294)

 * JDK: Enhance XPath Expressions (CVE-2026-87290)

 * JDK: Enhance Network Clients (CVE-2026-87292)

 * JDK: Enhance RMI connections (CVE-2026-87293)

 * JDK: Enhance Certificate Constraint Checking (CVE-2026-101516)

 * JDK: Enhance XML Processing (CVE-2026-83400)

 * JDK: Enhance JPEG loading (CVE-2026-91334)

 * JDK: Enhance Template Handling (CVE-2026-87367)

 * JDK: Enhance Image Handling (CVE-2026-91335)

 * JDK: Enhance Preferences (CVE-2026-91380)

 * JDK: Enhance TLS handshakes (CVE-2026-91373)

 * JDK: Enhance Font Rendering (CVE-2026-91381)

 * JDK: Enhance Image Processing (CVE-2026-91382)

 * JDK: Enhance jstatd (CVE-2026-91374)

 * JDK: Enhance Pack200 unpacking (CVE-2026-91395)

 * JDK: Improve Pack200 handling (CVE-2026-91396)

 * JDK: Enhance diagnostic sessions (CVE-2026-91397)

 * JDK: Enhance SOCKS5 support (CVE-2026-91398)

 * JDK: Enhance MIDI file handling (CVE-2026-91400)

 * JDK: Enhance zipfs (CVE-2026-91410)

 * JDK: Enhance JGSS (CVE-2026-91411)

 * JDK: Enhance CORBA (CVE-2026-91417)

 * JDK: Enhance font rendering (CVE-2026-91415)

 * JDK: Enhance HTTP server parsing (CVE-2026-91451)

 * JDK: Enhance HTTP Server Handler (CVE-2026-91452)

 * JDK: Improve HTTP headers (CVE-2026-91453)

 * JDK: Enhance GIF loading (CVE-2026-91418)

 * JDK: Enhance TLS Extensions (CVE-2026-91461)

 * JDK: Enhance krb5 tokens (CVE-2026-91462)

 * JDK: Enhance krb5 client (CVE-2026-91463)

 * JDK: Enhance Kerberos validation (CVE-2026-91464)

 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.

 Note that the OpenJDK RPMs use the system certificate repository rather than one provided by OpenJDK. For updates to remove the compromised eMudhra certificates, please update the ca-certificates package.

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 java-1.8.0-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:95598.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95598

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

http://www.nessus.org/u?92b541c0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379075

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-95598.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 92.82

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-91415

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk

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: 10/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-101516, CVE-2026-83374, CVE-2026-83376, CVE-2026-83380, CVE-2026-83381, CVE-2026-83387, CVE-2026-83395, CVE-2026-83400, CVE-2026-87290, CVE-2026-87292, CVE-2026-87293, CVE-2026-87294, CVE-2026-87367, CVE-2026-91334, CVE-2026-91335, CVE-2026-91373, CVE-2026-91374, CVE-2026-91380, CVE-2026-91381, CVE-2026-91382, CVE-2026-91395, CVE-2026-91396, CVE-2026-91397, CVE-2026-91398, CVE-2026-91400, CVE-2026-91410, CVE-2026-91411, CVE-2026-91415, CVE-2026-91417, CVE-2026-91418, CVE-2026-91451, CVE-2026-91452, CVE-2026-91453, CVE-2026-91461, CVE-2026-91462, CVE-2026-91463, CVE-2026-91464

CWE: 125, 1286, 22, 295, 303, 354, 358, 409, 444, 488, 611, 653, 749, 770, 776, 787, 835, 90, 91, 924, 93

RHSA: 2026:95598