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Fedora 43 : curl (2026-097fb2e7e9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 333276

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-097fb2e7e9 advisory.

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

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-2026-097fb2e7e9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 333276

File Name: fedora_2026-097fb2e7e9.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: 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:43, 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: 8/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2026

Reference Information

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

FEDORA: 2026-097fb2e7e9

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