Improper Input Validation vulnerability in pbkdf2 allows Signature Spoofing by Improper Validation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/to-buffer.Js. This issue affects pbkdf2: from 3.0.10 through 3.1.2.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8452-1 advisory.

    Nikita Skovoroda discovered that pbkdf2 did not properly validate certain algorithm names. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to generate predictable cryptographic keys, resulting in signature spoofing.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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

  - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in pbkdf2 allows Signature Spoofing by Improper Validation. This     vulnerability is associated with program files lib/to-buffer.Js. This issue affects pbkdf2: from 3.0.10     through 3.1.2. (CVE-2025-6545)

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

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-d3dee9f37d advisory.

    Update bundled pbkdf2 library.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-96ff8c2897 advisory.

    Update bundled pbkdf2 library.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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:

  - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in pbkdf2 allows Signature Spoofing by Improper Validation. This
    vulnerability is associated with program files lib/to-buffer.Js. This issue affects pbkdf2: from 3.0.10
    through 3.1.2. (CVE-2025-6545)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321764	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : pbkdf2 vulnerability (USN-8452-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
274076	SUSE SLED15: aws-cli / python311-boto3 / python311-botocore / python311-coverage / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:3744-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
245527	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-6545	Nessus	Misc.	critical
241374	Fedora 41 : yarnpkg (2025-d3dee9f37d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
241332	Fedora 42 : yarnpkg (2025-96ff8c2897)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
427898	SCA: security update for pbkdf2 (GHSA-h7cp-r72f-jxh6)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
427898	SCA: security update for pbkdf2 (GHSA-h7cp-r72f-jxh6)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical

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