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Fedora 40 : erlang-jose (2024-a8d7972ef6)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202454

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a8d7972ef6 advisory.

 Re-reviewed Jose ver. 1.11.10

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 erlang-jose package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a8d7972ef6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202454

File Name: fedora_2024-a8d7972ef6.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2024

Updated: 7/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:erlang-jose, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50966