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Fedora 43 : python-cryptography (2026-6c010af7be)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 304255

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-6c010af7be advisory.

 Update to v46.0.6

 This includes a single fix for security issue:

 * **SECURITY ISSUE**: Fixed a bug where name constraints were not applied to peer names during verification when the leaf certificate contains a wildcard DNS SAN. Ordinary X.509 topologies are not affected by this bug, including those used by the Web PKI. Credit to **Oleh Konko (1seal)** for reporting the issue. **CVE-2026-34073**


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 python-cryptography package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6c010af7be

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 304255

File Name: fedora_2026-6c010af7be.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2026

Updated: 3/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34073

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-cryptography, 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: 3/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34073