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Fedora 44 : openssh (2026-c9d8542bb3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 327810

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-c9d8542bb3 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-59996: Fix remote glob result of .. causing files to be placed in unintended parent directories when scp performs remote-to-remote copy via the local host
 - CVE-2026-60002: Fix use-after-free in cached hostkey during key re-exchange

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 openssh package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-c9d8542bb3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 327810

File Name: fedora_2026-c9d8542bb3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2026

Updated: 7/19/2026

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: 4.5

Percentile: 57.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.7

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-60002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssh

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59996, CVE-2026-60002

FEDORA: 2026-c9d8542bb3

IAVA: 2026-A-0691