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Fedora 44 : perl-HTTP-Date (2026-8cec3cbf5b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 327483

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-2026-8cec3cbf5b advisory.

 Changes:

 6.08 2026-07-09 02:04:21Z

 - [SECURITY] Reject input longer than 64 characters in parse_date() to prevent quadratic regex backtracking (a denial of service) on hostile date strings. Fixes CVE-2026-14741. (Olaf Alders)

 6.07 2026-06-25 15:12:09Z

 - Add test with Time::Zone (GH#25) (Michal Josef paek)
 - Add test with bad Time::Zone string (GH#26) (Michal Josef paek)
 - Add tests with negative time (GH#26) (Michal Josef paek)
 - Replace all instances of \d with [0-9] in regular expressions to reject non-ASCII Unicode digits, with a regression test (GH#27) (Robert Rothenberg)
 - Reject malformed ISO 8601 timezones with a doubled colon (GH#31) (Olaf Alders)
 - Document day/month/year ordering for numeric dates (GH#32) (Olaf Alders)

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 perl-HTTP-Date package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-8cec3cbf5b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 327483

File Name: fedora_2026-8cec3cbf5b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2026

Updated: 7/16/2026

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: 58.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-14741

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-http-date

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-14741