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Fedora 43 : pdns (2026-6458693037)

high Nessus Plugin ID 318013

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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-2026-6458693037 advisory.

 - Update to 5.0.5
 - Fix for CVE-2026-42000, CVE-2026-42001, CVE-2026-42002, CVE-2026-41999, CVE-2026-42396

 Security Advisory: https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns- advisory-2026-06.html

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 pdns package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6458693037

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 318013

File Name: fedora_2026-6458693037.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2026

Updated: 5/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42000

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41999, CVE-2026-42000, CVE-2026-42001, CVE-2026-42002, CVE-2026-42396