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Fedora 41 : curl (2024-a94430d221)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213610

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a94430d221 advisory.

 - fix HSTS subdomain overwrites parent cache entry (CVE-2024-9681)

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 curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a94430d221

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213610

File Name: fedora_2024-a94430d221.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2025

Updated: 1/9/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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: 12/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9681

FEDORA: 2024-a94430d221

IAVA: 2024-A-0708-S