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Fedora 42 : perl-Authen-SASL (2025-fddaaaf9f0)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 249330

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-fddaaaf9f0 advisory.

 2.1900 [Fixed] - CVE-2025-40918 (Insecure source of randomness), required addition of dependency on Crypt::URandom [Changed] - Modules Authen::SASL::Perl::CRAM_MD5, Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 and Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5 marked as deprecated based on the respective RFC documents;
 - Update module metadata to point to the new 'perl-authen-sasl' org on GitHub to which the modules moved
 - Use VERSION declarations in 'package' statements, since our minimum Perl version is 5.14 anyway

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 perl-Authen-SASL package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-fddaaaf9f0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 249330

File Name: fedora_2025-fddaaaf9f0.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2025

Updated: 8/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-authen-sasl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40918