elog 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to post data as any username in the logbook.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - elog 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to post data as any username in the logbook. (CVE-2016-6342)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Security fix for CVE-2016-6342

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
261094	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-6342	Nessus	Misc.	high
94788	Fedora 25 : elog (2016-348a7b6285)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
93424	Fedora 23 : elog (2016-820a4795a9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
93421	Fedora 24 : elog (2016-508767e6b7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-6342

high

Tenable Plugins

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high

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high