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Fedora 45 : attr (2026-c7aafa6056)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325965

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-c7aafa6056 advisory.

 Automatic update for attr-2.6.0-1.fc45.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Thu Jul 9 2026 Luk Zaoral <[email protected]> - 2.6.0-1
 - rebase to the latest upstream release (rhbz#2494157)
 - CVE-2026-54371 - Symlink Traversal Privilege Escalation via getfattr (rhbz#2494172)
 - remove a long-overdue workaround for /usr/include/attr/xattr.h

 ```

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 attr package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-c7aafa6056

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325965

File Name: fedora_2026-c7aafa6056.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2026

Updated: 7/9/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.64

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Threat Score: 5.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54371