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Fedora 44 : valkey (2026-ca1077dd2e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 301434

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-ca1077dd2e advisory.

 **Valkey 9.0.3** - February 23, 2026

 Upgrade urgency SECURITY: This release includes security fixes we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

 Security fixes

 * (**CVE-2025-67733**) RESP Protocol Injection via Lua error_reply
 * (**CVE-2026-21863**) Remote DoS with malformed Valkey Cluster bus message
 * (**CVE-2026-27623**) Reset request type after handling empty requests

 Bug fixes

 * Avoids crash during MODULE UNLOAD when ACL rules reference a module command and subcommand (#3160)
 * Fix server assert on ACL LOAD when current user loses permission to channels (#3182)
 * Fix bug causing no response flush sometimes when IO threads are busy (#3205)

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 valkey package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-ca1077dd2e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 301434

File Name: fedora_2026-ca1077dd2e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2026

Updated: 3/7/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-67733

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 2/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67733, CVE-2026-21863, CVE-2026-27623