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Fedora 44 : mirrorlist-server / rust-maxminddb / rust-protobuf / etc (2025-41d833fe83)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266303

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-41d833fe83 advisory.

 - Update mirrorlist-server to version 3.0.8.
 - Update the maxminddb crate to version 0.26.0.
 - Update the protobuf and protobuf-codegen crates to version 3.7.2.
 - Initial packaging of the protobuf-parse and protobuf-support crates.

 This includes fixes for CVE-2025-53605 (Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability in the protobuf crate).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-41d833fe83

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266303

File Name: fedora_2025-41d833fe83.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-protobuf-support, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-protobuf-codegen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mirrorlist-server, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-protobuf-parse, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rust-maxminddb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53605