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Fedora 42 : vim (2026-f4563b100f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299147

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-f4563b100f advisory.

 patchlevel 2146

 Security fix for CVE-2026-25749

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 2:vim package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f4563b100f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299147

File Name: fedora_2026-f4563b100f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2026

Updated: 2/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25749

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vim, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25749

FEDORA: 2026-f4563b100f

IAVA: 2026-A-0138