RHEL 10 : mutter (RHSA-2026:99130)

high Nessus Plugin ID 379368

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mutter.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:99130 advisory.

Mutter is a compositing window manager that displays and manages desktop through OpenGL. It combines the window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager with a display engine that uses the Clutter toolkit.

Security Fix(es):

* mutter: mutter: client-triggered use-after-free in Wayland color-management ICC image description path (CVE-2026-108094)

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 mutter package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:99130.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99130

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2549511

http://www.nessus.org/u?35996d2b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379368

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-99130.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: 4.9

Percentile: 58.38

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-108094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:10.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mutter-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mutter-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mutter

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: 10/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-108094

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2026:99130