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Fedora 26 : wget (2018-f29459149a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109747

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- New upstream version fixing CVE

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wget package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f29459149a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109747

File Name: fedora_2018-f29459149a.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/14/2018

Updated: 10/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wget, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0494