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Fedora 41 : roundcubemail (2025-a5f56fe8ff)

high Nessus Plugin ID 238230

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-a5f56fe8ff advisory.

 This is a **security update** to the stable version 1.6 of Roundcube Webmail.
 It provides fixes to recently reported security vulnerabilities:

 * Fix Post-Auth RCE via PHP Object Deserialization reported by firs0v.

 This version is considered stable and we recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube 1.6.x with it. Please do backup your data before updating!

 CHANGELOG

 * Managesieve: Fix match-type selector (remove unsupported options) in delete header action (#9610)
 * Improve installer to fix confusion about disabling SMTP authentication (#9801)
 * Fix PHP warning in index.php (#9813)
 * OAuth: Fix/improve token refresh
 * Fix dark mode bug where wrong colors were used for blockquotes in HTML mail preview (#9820)
 * Fix HTML message preview if it contains floating tables (#9804)
 * Fix removing/expiring redis/memcache records when using a key prefix
 * Fix bug where a wrong SPECIAL-USE folder could have been detected, if there were more than one per- type (#9781)
 * Fix a default value and documentation of password_ldap_encodage option (#9658)
 * Remove mobile/floating Create button from the list in Settings > Folders (#9661)
 * Fix Delete and Empty buttons state while creating a folder (#9047)
 * Fix connecting to LDAP using ldapi:// URI (#8990)
 * Fix cursor position on below the quote reply in HTML mode (#8700)
 * Fix bug where attachments with content type of application/vnd.ms-tnef were not parsed (#7119)



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.

Solution

Update the affected roundcubemail package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-a5f56fe8ff

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 238230

File Name: fedora_2025-a5f56fe8ff.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2025

Updated: 2/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49113

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:roundcubemail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/13/2026

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Roundcube Post-Auth RCE via PHP Object Deserialization)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-49113