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Fedora 38 : perl-CPAN (2023-46924e402a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178055

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-46924e402a advisory.

 Security fix for CVE-2023-31484

 CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS.
 CPAN 2.35 - Add verify_SSL=>1 to HTTP::Tiny to verify https server identity



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.

Solution

Update the affected perl-CPAN package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-46924e402a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178055

File Name: fedora_2023-46924e402a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-cpan

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: 6/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31484