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Fedora 44 : pyOpenSSL (2026-05d463c932)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 312319

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-05d463c932 advisory.

 Update to pyOpenSSL 26.1.0

 This update adds support for cryptography v47 and fixes a single security issue:

 - Fixed X509Name field setters to correctly pass the value length to OpenSSL. Previously, values containing NUL bytes would be silently truncated, causing a divergence between the stored ASN.1 value and the value visible from Python. Credit to BudongJW for reporting the issue. CVE-2026-40475

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 pyOpenSSL package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-05d463c932

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 312319

File Name: fedora_2026-05d463c932.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2026

Updated: 5/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40475

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:pyopenssl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40475