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Fedora 41 : perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS (2025-89495f6403)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265383

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-89495f6403 advisory.

 This update fixes an issue where a specially-crafted JSON input could cause an integer overflow leading to a crash in the program parsing the JSON (CVE-2025-40929).


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-Cpanel-JSON-XS package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-89495f6403

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265383

File Name: fedora_2025-89495f6403.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2025

Updated: 9/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-cpanel-json-xs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40929