C-Kermit (aka ckermit) through 10.0 Beta.12 (aka 416-beta12) before 244644d allows a remote Kermit system to overwrite files on the local system, or retrieve arbitrary files from the local system.

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-58726b29bc advisory.

    Update to 10.0.511

    ----

    Update to 11.0.509 with security 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.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-cc3b077d5b advisory.

    Update to 11.0.509 to address CVE-2025-68920

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.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-32742a29dc advisory.

    Update to 11.0.509 which fixes CVE-2025-68920

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.

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

  - C-Kermit (aka ckermit) through 10.0 Beta.12 (aka 416-beta12) before 244644d allows a remote Kermit system     to overwrite files on the local system, or retrieve arbitrary files from the local system.
    (CVE-2025-68920)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
358422	Fedora 45 : ckermit (2026-58726b29bc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
350839	Fedora 43 : ckermit (2026-cc3b077d5b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
350803	Fedora 44 : ckermit (2026-32742a29dc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
279925	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-68920	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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