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Fedora 43 : composer (2026-02c1f66b6a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 306621

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-2026-02c1f66b6a advisory.

 ### Version 2.9.7 - 2026-04-14

 * Fixes regression calling custom script command aliases that are called a substring of a composer command (#12802)

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 ### Version 2.9.6 - 2026-04-14

 * Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce reference (GHSA-gqw4-4w2p-838q /
 **CVE-2026-40261**)
 * Security: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce repository definition (GHSA-wg36-wvj6-r67p /
 **CVE-2026-40176**)
 * Security: Fixed git credentials remaining in git mirror .git/config after clone or update failed (2bcbfc3d)
 * Security: Fixed usage of insecure 3DES ciphers when ext-curl is missing (5e71d77e)
 * Security: Fixed Perforce unescaped user input in queryP4User shell command (ef3fc088)
 * Security: Hardened git/hg/perforce/fossil identifier validation to ensure branch names starting with `-` do not cause issues (6621d45, d836b90, 5e08c764)
 * Fixed inconsistent treatment of SingleCommandApplication script commands wrt autoloading (#12758)
 * Fixed GitHub API authentication errors not being visible to the user (#12737)
 * Fixed some platform package parsing failing when Composer runs in web SAPIs (#12735)
 * Fixed error reporting for clarity when a constraint cannot be parsed (#12743)


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 composer package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-02c1f66b6a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 306621

File Name: fedora_2026-02c1f66b6a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2026

Updated: 4/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40261

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:composer, 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: 4/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40176, CVE-2026-40261