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Fedora 44 : chromium (2026-5551bc920f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 282479

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-5551bc920f advisory.

 Automatic update for chromium-143.0.7499.192-1.fc44.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Jan 7 2026 Than Ngo <[email protected]> - 143.0.7499.192-1
 - Update tp 143.0.7499.192
 * High CVE-2026-0628: Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView tag
 - Fix rhbz#2425338, Enable control flow integrity support for x86_64/aarch64
 - Enable build for epel10.1

 ```

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 chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-5551bc920f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 282479

File Name: fedora_2026-5551bc920f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2026

Updated: 1/8/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0628

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 1/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-0628