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Fedora 43 : freeipa (2025-54a485ee85)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 266429

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-2025-54a485ee85 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-7493: host to admin escalation prevention: https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-5.html

 - Rebuild for Python 3.14.0rc3

 - Update FreeIPA to latest fixes from ipa-4-12 branch




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 freeipa package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-54a485ee85

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 266429

File Name: fedora_2025-54a485ee85.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2025

Updated: 10/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-7493

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeipa, 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: 9/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-7493