The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5155 advisory.

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit web engine: CVE-2022-26700 ryuzaki     discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution. CVE-2022-26709     Chijin Zhou discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code     execution. CVE-2022-26716 SorryMybad discovered that Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead     to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-26717 Jeonghoon Shin discovered that Processing maliciously crafted     web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-26719 Dongzhuo Zhao discovered that Processing     maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2022-30293 Chijin Zhou     discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution or to a     denial of service (application crash). CVE-2022-30294 Chijin Zhou discovered that processing maliciously     crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution or to a denial of service (application crash).
    For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.3-1~deb11u1. We     recommend that you upgrade your wpewebkit packages. For the detailed security status of wpewebkit please     refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpewebkit

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

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

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Debian DSA-5155-1 : wpewebkit - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 161751

Version 1.5