Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-46400

medium Nessus Plugin ID 255632

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In xfig diagramming tool, a segmentation fault while running fig2dev allows an attacker to availability via local input manipulation via read_arcobject function. (CVE-2025-46400)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 255632

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_46400.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/26/2025

Updated: 8/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fig2dev, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:transfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:transfig, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46400

Detections

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