A flaw was found in sblim-cmpi-base. Insecure temporary file creation in the provider registration scripts allows a local unprivileged user to perform a symlink attack. By creating a symlink in a world-writable directory, an attacker can redirect privileged writes to an arbitrary file during script execution in a privileged context. This can lead to the overwrite of root-owned files, potentially disrupting system services or operation. Exploitation is conditional on the script running with elevated privileges and may be mitigated by sticky-directory symlink protections.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-7510dd645d advisory.

    Use mktemp for temporary files in provider registration script (CVE-2026-73585)

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 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-fe1549bec3 advisory.

    Use mktemp for temporary files in provider registration script (CVE-2026-73585)

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 45 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-700fe12346 advisory.

    Use mktemp for temporary files in provider registration script (CVE-2026-73585)

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

  - A flaw was found in sblim-cmpi-base. Insecure temporary file creation in the provider registration scripts     allows a local unprivileged user to perform a symlink attack. By creating a symlink in a world-writable     directory, an attacker can redirect privileged writes to an arbitrary file during script execution in a     privileged context. This can lead to the overwrite of root-owned files, potentially disrupting system     services or operation. Exploitation is conditional on the script running with elevated privileges and may     be mitigated by sticky-directory symlink protections. (CVE-2026-73585)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
347936	Fedora 44 : sblim-cmpi-base (2026-7510dd645d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
347935	Fedora 43 : sblim-cmpi-base (2026-fe1549bec3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
347001	Fedora 45 : sblim-cmpi-base (2026-700fe12346)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
335204	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-73585	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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