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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-129124

critical Nessus Plugin ID 381301

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - C-Kermit before 11.1.515 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows remote clients to execute shell commands by supplying unquoted arguments to REMOTE WHO or REMOTE SPACE. Attackers can append shell metacharacters to arguments passed through WHOCMD or SPACM2 to syscmd(), executing commands on the server host even when DISABLE HOST is set. (CVE-2026-129124)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-129124

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 381301

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_129124.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/14/2026

Updated: 11/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-129124

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ckermit

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-129124