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Fedora 41 : kea (2025-b870671130)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240176

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-b870671130 advisory.

 - New version 2.6.3 (rhbz#2368989)
 - Fix for: CVE-2025-32801, CVE-2025-32802, CVE-2025-32803
 - kea.conf: Remove /tmp/ from socket-name for existing configurations
 - kea.conf: Set pseudo-random password for default config to secure fresh install and allow CA startup without user intervention
 - kea.conf: Restrict directory permissions
 - Sync service files with upstream
 - Fix leases ownership when switching from root to kea user (rhbz#2324168)

 Release Notes:

 The new default configuration file, kea-ctrl-agent.conf, introduces an authentication setting, password- file, which restricts access to the REST API. On Fedora, the kea-api-password file is automatically populated with a pseudo-random password to secure new installations.

 For system upgrades, it is strongly recommended to update any custom configurations to restrict access to the REST API.

 For more details, including information on CVE fixes and incompatible changes, refer to the upstream release notes:

 https://downloads.isc.org/isc/kea/2.6.3/Kea-2.6.3-ReleaseNotes.txt

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.

Solution

Update the affected kea package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-b870671130

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240176

File Name: fedora_2025-b870671130.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2025

Updated: 6/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32801, CVE-2025-32802, CVE-2025-32803