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Fedora 44 : curl (2026-e691fbbfe7)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 331599

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-e691fbbfe7 advisory.

 - Fix trailing dot domain super cookie (CVE-2026-8924)
 - Fix SSH improper host validation (CVE-2026-9547)
 - Fix password leak with netrc and user in URL (CVE-2026-8926)
 - Fix cross-origin Digest auth state leak (CVE-2026-11856)
 - Fix cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (CVE-2026-7168)
 - Fix OCSP stapling bypass with Apple SecTrust (CVE-2026-7009)

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 curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e691fbbfe7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 331599

File Name: fedora_2026-e691fbbfe7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/2/2026

Updated: 8/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-7168

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11856, CVE-2026-7009, CVE-2026-7168, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-8926, CVE-2026-9547

FEDORA: 2026-e691fbbfe7

IAVA: 2026-A-0397-S, 2026-A-0627