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Fedora 43 : mod_md (2025-24282560e4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 278932

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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-2025-24282560e4 advisory.

 This update includes the latest upstream release of `mod_md`, with various bug fixes and enhancements. See https://github.com/icing/mod_md/releases for more information.

 A fix for the security vulnerability `CVE-2025-55753` is also included.


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 1:mod_md package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-24282560e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 278932

File Name: fedora_2025-24282560e4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2025

Updated: 12/17/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55753

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_md, 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: 12/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55753