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Fedora 43 : perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP (2025-6df5ab0b98)

high Nessus Plugin ID 265712

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-6df5ab0b98 advisory.

 This update upgrade the package to version 1.019. This version fixes CVE-2025-40920 by using Crypt::SysRandom to generate nonces instead of Data::UUID.

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-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-6df5ab0b98

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 265712

File Name: fedora_2025-6df5ab0b98.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2025

Updated: 9/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40920

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-catalyst-authentication-credential-http, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40920