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Fedora 43 : qownnotes (2026-00a6b7589c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 296547

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-00a6b7589c advisory.

 See commit history

 ----

 Automatic update for qownnotes-26.1.7-2.fc43.

 ##### **Changelog for qownnotes**

 ```
 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Artem Polishchuk <[email protected]> - 26.1.7-2
 - Mask BR: botan-3 temporary

 * Thu Jan 15 2026 Artem Polishchuk <[email protected]> - 26.1.7-1
 - 26.1.7
 - Bundle Botan 2 for now

 ```



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 qownnotes package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-00a6b7589c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 296547

File Name: fedora_2026-00a6b7589c.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2026

Updated: 1/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qownnotes, 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: 1/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8082, CVE-2025-8083