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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : Sodium vulnerability (USN-7949-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 282533

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7949-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Sodium incorrectly handled the elliptic curve point validity check in certain atypical use cases. This could result in invalid points being used, contrary to expectations.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 libsodium-dev and / or libsodium23 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7949-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 282533

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7949-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2026

Updated: 1/9/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69277

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsodium23, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsodium-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-69277

IAVA: 2026-A-0014

USN: 7949-1