Fedora 45 : cifs-utils (2026-90dbff48ca)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325312

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-90dbff48ca advisory.

Automatic update for cifs-utils-7.6-2.fc45.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Mon Jul 6 2026 Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]> - 7.6-2
- cifs.upcall: fix regression with kerberos mounts
- Resolves: rhbz#2497446
- Resolves: rhbz#2496963
- Resolves: rhbz#2489808 - CVE-2026-12505

```

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 cifs-utils package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325312

File Name: fedora_2026-90dbff48ca.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/7/2026

Updated: 7/7/2026

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-12505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cifs-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12505

FEDORA: 2026-90dbff48ca

IAVB: 2026-B-0164

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