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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-85062

🗓️ 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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ReDoS in colord prior to 2.9.4 via ambiguous regex in CSS color string matchers enables DoS.

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cve
CVE
CVE-2026-85062
3 Sep 202620:30
cve
cvelist
Cvelist
CVE-2026-85062 Colord: Slow rejection of oversized malformed color strings
3 Sep 202620:30
cvelist
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-70736
3 Sep 202620:30
euvd
nvd
NVD
CVE-2026-85062
3 Sep 202621:17
nvd
osv
OSV
AZL-99084 CVE-2026-85062 affecting package colord 1.4.6-1
3 Sep 202621:17
osv
ptsecurity
Positive Technologies
PT-2026-85252
3 Sep 202600:00
ptsecurity
redhatcve
RedhatCVE
CVE-2026-85062
4 Sep 202614:42
redhatcve
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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
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  - Colord is a tiny yet powerful tool for high-performance color manipulations and conversions. Prior to
    2.9.4, synchronous CSS color string matchers in src/colorModels/rgbString.ts,
    src/colorModels/hslString.ts, src/colorModels/hwbString.ts, src/colorModels/lchString.ts, and
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    is rejected. An attacker who can supply an unbounded color string to colord(), getFormat(), isEqual(),
    mix(), or contrast(), including through a request body, JSON field, or uploaded stylesheet, can block the
    processing thread with a multi-kilobyte payload. The affected matchers are parseRgbaString,
    parseHslaString, parseHwbaString, parseLchaString, and parseCmykaString. This issue is fixed in version
    2.9.4. (CVE-2026-85062)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "10",
        "pkgs": [
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    ]
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  "CentOS Linux-8": {
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          {"reference": "grafana-influxdb"},
          {"reference": "grafana-loki"},
          {"reference": "grafana-mssql"},
          {"reference": "grafana-mysql"},
          {"reference": "grafana-opentsdb"},
          {"reference": "grafana-pcp"},
          {"reference": "grafana-postgres"},
          {"reference": "grafana-prometheus"},
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    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8": {
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};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
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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