nheko is a desktop client for the Matrix communication application. All versions below 0.10.2 are vulnerable homeservers inserting malicious secrets, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Users can upgrade to version 0.10.2 to protect against this issue. As a workaround, one may apply the patch manually, avoid doing verifications of one's own devices, and/or avoid pressing the request button in the settings menu.

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

  - nheko is a desktop client for the Matrix communication application. All versions below 0.10.2 are     vulnerable homeservers inserting malicious secrets, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Users     can upgrade to version 0.10.2 to protect against this issue. As a workaround, one may apply the patch     manually, avoid doing verifications of one's own devices, and/or avoid pressing the request button in the     settings menu. (CVE-2022-39264)

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-959b529587 advisory.

    Updated to version 0.10.2 with CVE fix.

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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - nheko is a desktop client for the Matrix communication application. All versions below 0.10.2 are
    vulnerable homeservers inserting malicious secrets, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Users
    can upgrade to version 0.10.2 to protect against this issue. As a workaround, one may apply the patch
    manually, avoid doing verifications of one's own devices, and/or avoid pressing the request button in the
    settings menu. (CVE-2022-39264)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-1fd94a54a1 advisory.

    Updated to version 0.10.2 with CVE fix.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255676	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-39264	Nessus	Misc.	medium
211354	Fedora 37 : nheko (2022-959b529587)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
405773	Alpine: multiple nheko packages: security update to 0.9.3-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
405773	Alpine: multiple nheko packages: security update to 0.9.3-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
169231	Fedora 36 : nheko (2022-1fd94a54a1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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