RockyLinux 9 : jackson-core (RLSA-2026:98493)

high Nessus Plugin ID 380184

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:98493 advisory.

* com.fasterxml.jackson/jackson-core: tools.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via regular expression backtracking (CVE-2026-89407)

* com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via unbounded StringBuilder growth during malformed token processing (CVE-2026-89425)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 pki-jackson-core package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 380184

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-98493.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.63

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-2026-89425

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:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pki-jackson-core

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-89407, CVE-2026-89425

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