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Fedora 42 : gi-docgen (2025-b4184a589e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270835

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-b4184a589e advisory.

 ## gi-docgen 2025.5 - 2025-10-11

 This is a security fix for CVE-2025-11687. The severity of this issue depends on what else is hosted on the same domain as the docs. XSS on a website that hosts only gi-docgen docs and nothing else is likely harmless.

 Fixed
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 - Make sure to escape query strings


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 gi-docgen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-b4184a589e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270835

File Name: fedora_2025-b4184a589e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2025

Updated: 10/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11687

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gi-docgen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11687