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MiracleLinux 8 : perl-5.26.3-423.el8_10 (AXSA:2025-10629:10)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 282858

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2025-10629:10 advisory.

 * perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths (CVE-2025-40909)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/21813

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 282858

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2025-10629.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/13/2026

Updated: 1/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40909

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-loaded

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40909