Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-61962

medium Nessus Plugin ID 269446

Language:

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 fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context. (CVE-2025-61962)

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: 269446

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_61962.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/8/2025

Updated: 10/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fetchmail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fetchmail, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fetchmail, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fetchmail, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-61962

Detections

Analytics