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Fedora 42 : webkitgtk (2025-61ca72f430)

high Nessus Plugin ID 245574

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-61ca72f430 advisory.

 Update to 2.48.5. Changes since 2.48.3:

 * Improve emoji font selection.
 * Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
 * Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen window.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
 * CVE-2025-31273, CVE-2025-31278, CVE-2025-43211, CVE-2025-43212, CVE-2025-43216, CVE-2025-43227, CVE-2025-43240, CVE-2025-43265, CVE-2025-6558

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 webkitgtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-61ca72f430

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 245574

File Name: fedora_2025-61ca72f430.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6558

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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: 8/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31273, CVE-2025-31278, CVE-2025-43211, CVE-2025-43212, CVE-2025-43216, CVE-2025-43227, CVE-2025-43240, CVE-2025-43265, CVE-2025-6558