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Fedora 42 : sudo (2025-44c3b13554)

low Nessus Plugin ID 241389

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-44c3b13554 advisory.

 Rebase to sudo 1.9.17p1

 - sudo-1_9_16p2 is available.
 Resolves: rhbz#2309626
 - sudo: LPE via host option.
 Resolves: CVE-2025-32462
 - Properly apply system buildflags.
 - Use new build macros, drop unneeded %defattr.

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 sudo package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-44c3b13554

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 241389

File Name: fedora_2025-44c3b13554.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/7/2025

Updated: 7/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.8

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sudo

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: 7/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32462

FEDORA: 2025-44c3b13554

IAVA: 2025-A-0465