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Fedora 43 : freeipa / samba (2026-8e7fa96cf3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 333275

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-8e7fa96cf3 advisory.

 Update to Samba 4.23.10 (and rebuild of FreeIPA).
 Security fixes for CVE-2026-6949, CVE-2026-58218, CVE-2026-58221, CVE-2026-58222, CVE-2026-58216 and CVE-2026-58224

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 2:samba and / or freeipa packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-8e7fa96cf3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 333275

File Name: fedora_2026-8e7fa96cf3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2026

Updated: 8/7/2026

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: 4.9

Percentile: 58.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-58222

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeipa, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:samba

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-58216, CVE-2026-58218, CVE-2026-58221, CVE-2026-58222, CVE-2026-58224, CVE-2026-6949

FEDORA: 2026-8e7fa96cf3

IAVA: 2026-A-0794