The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6612 advisory.

    The fence-agents packages provide a collection of scripts for handling remote power management for cluster     devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.

    Security Fix(es):

    * pypa/setuptools: Remote code execution via download functions in the package_index module in     pypa/setuptools (CVE-2024-6345)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 9 : fence-agents (RHSA-2024:6612)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206997

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.1 Sep 12, 2024, 1:51 AM New Plugin Feed: 202409120151