Insufficient validation of filenames against control characters in Apache Subversion repositories served via mod_dav_svn allows authenticated users with commit access to commit a corrupted revision, leading to disruption for users of the repository. All versions of Subversion up to and including Subversion 1.14.4 are affected if serving repositories via mod_dav_svn. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.14.5, which fixes this issue. Repositories served via other access methods are not affected.

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

  - Insufficient validation of filenames against control characters in Apache Subversion repositories served     via mod_dav_svn allows authenticated users with commit access to commit a corrupted revision, leading to     disruption for users of the repository. All versions of Subversion up to and including Subversion 1.14.4     are affected if serving repositories via mod_dav_svn. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.14.5,     which fixes this issue. Repositories served via other access methods are not affected. (CVE-2024-46901)

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

According to the versions of the subversion packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    Insufficient validation of filenames against control characters in Apache Subversion repositories served     via mod_dav_svn allows authenticated users with commit access to commit a corrupted revision, leading to     disruption for users of the repository.All versions of Subversion up to and including Subversion 1.14.4     are affected if serving repositories via mod_dav_svn. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.14.5,     which fixes this issue.Repositories served via other access methods are not affected.(CVE-2024-46901)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS subversion security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4366-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-46901: Fixed denial-of-service via control characters in paths in mod_dav_svn (bsc#1234317)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-93e88b1c0d advisory.

    This release contains a fix for a security issue: CVE-2024-46901

    See https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2024-46901-advisory.txt for more information.

    Changes in this release are:

    * Fix printf-format build warnings in swig-rb (r1921264)
    * Add a regression test for CVE-2024-45720 (r1921266)
    * Make swig-py compatible with SWIG 4.3.0 (r1921505)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
229446	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-46901	Nessus	Misc.	low
216033	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : subversion (EulerOS-SA-2025-1182)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
216031	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : subversion (EulerOS-SA-2025-1198)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
216014	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : subversion (EulerOS-SA-2025-1167)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
216002	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : subversion (EulerOS-SA-2025-1148)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	low
213123	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : subversion (SUSE-SU-2024:4366-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
213027	Fedora 41 : subversion (2024-93e88b1c0d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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