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Fedora 39 : caddy (2023-5effef25a3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185173

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-5effef25a3 advisory.

 Automatic update for caddy-2.7.4-1.fc39.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Thu Aug 17 2023 Carl George <[email protected]> - 2.7.4-1
 - Update to version 2.7.4, resolves rhbz#2232696
 - Fix CVE-2023-3978, resolves rhbz#2229582

 ```

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

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

Solution

Update the affected caddy package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-5effef25a3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185173

File Name: fedora_2023-5effef25a3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:caddy, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3978