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Fedora 41 : toolbox (2025-ab370b9ac9)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 253682

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-ab370b9ac9 advisory.

 ### Security fixes

 * Bumped the minimum github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 version to 2.3.0 for GHSA-fv92-fjc5-jj9h or GO-2025-3787
 * Bumped the minimum github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit version to 1.17.8 for CVE-2025-23266 and CVE-2025-23267

 ### Bug fixes

 * Improved error handling when creating symbolic links inside the container to initialize it
 * Preserved environment variables set by a KDE session and Konsole
 * Unbroke access to CA certificates in `sshd(8)` sessions (regression in 0.1.2)
 * Unbroke overriding the `HOME` variable (regression in 0.0.90)

 ### Dependencies

 * Bumped the minimum Go version to 1.22

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 toolbox package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-ab370b9ac9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 253682

File Name: fedora_2025-ab370b9ac9.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2025

Updated: 8/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23266

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:toolbox, 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: 8/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23266, CVE-2025-23267