Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-80353
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- Time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat when creating unix domain
sockets for the APR/Native connector allows an unauthorised local user to access the unix domain socket.
The fix for CVE-2026-65183 only addressed the NIO connector. It did not address the same issue in the
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if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
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{"reference": "libtomcat7-java"},
{"reference": "tomcat6"},
{"reference": "tomcat7"},
{"reference": "tomcat7-admin"},
{"reference": "tomcat7-common"},
{"reference": "tomcat7-docs"},
{"reference": "tomcat7-examples"},
{"reference": "tomcat7-user"}
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"Ubuntu Linux-16.04": {
"package_manager": "dpkg-l",
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"release": "16.04",
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{"reference": "libservlet3.1-java"},
{"reference": "libservlet3.1-java-doc"},
{"reference": "libtomcat8-java"},
{"reference": "tomcat7"},
{"reference": "tomcat8"},
{"reference": "tomcat8-admin"},
{"reference": "tomcat8-common"},
{"reference": "tomcat8-docs"},
{"reference": "tomcat8-examples"},
{"reference": "tomcat8-user"}
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{"reference": "tomcat9"}
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{"reference": "tomcat10"},
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{"reference": "tomcat10"},
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"Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10": {
"package_manager": "rpm-list",
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"release": "10",
"pkgs": [
{"reference": "tomcat9"},
{"reference": "tomcat9-admin-webapps"},
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if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var third_party_support = get_kb_item('Host/OS/extended-third-party');
if (!empty_or_null(third_party_support)) {
var third_party_vendors = distro_constraints_values['third_party'];
if (!empty_or_null(third_party_vendors)) {
var vendor;
foreach vendor (third_party_vendors) {
if (vendor == third_party_support) exit(0, 'A third party management patch is available for this vulnerability from ' + vendor + '.\n');
}
}
}
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);
if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}
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23 Oct 2026 00:00Current
7.2High risk
Vulners AI Score7.2
CVSS 3.18.1
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