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Fedora 41 : pandoc / pandoc-cli (2025-ef1d49c67b)

low Nessus Plugin ID 269691

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-ef1d49c67b advisory.

 pandoc-cli:

 - enable pandoc server (semantically safe) with pandoc-server-0.1.0.5

 pandoc:

 - apply upstream patch to avoid error with ConTeXt (#2365309) https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9820




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 pandoc and / or pandoc-cli packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-ef1d49c67b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 269691

File Name: fedora_2025-ef1d49c67b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2025

Updated: 10/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-51591

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pandoc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pandoc-cli

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-51591

FEDORA: 2025-ef1d49c67b

IAVA: 2025-A-0699