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Fedora 44 : ansible / ansible-core (2025-2842f20915)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278401

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-2842f20915 advisory.

 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ansible13

 - Close old CVE bugs
 - Close bogus Markdown-It CVE bug
 - Close unactionable ABRT bug

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ansible and / or ansible-core packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-2842f20915

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278401

File Name: fedora_2025-2842f20915.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2025

Updated: 2/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-7969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible-core

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: 12/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11079, CVE-2024-9902, CVE-2025-7969

FEDORA: 2025-2842f20915

IAVA: 2025-A-0778