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Fedora 45 : perl-CGI-Session (2026-65aea3d269)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 337731

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-65aea3d269 advisory.

 Automatic update for perl-CGI-Session-4.49-1.fc45.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Tue Aug 18 2026 Jitka Plesnikova <[email protected]> - 4.49-1
 - 4.49 bump (rhbz#2510691)
 - Fix CVE-2026-56016 (rhbz#2495886)

 ```

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-CGI-Session package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-65aea3d269

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 337731

File Name: fedora_2026-65aea3d269.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2026

Updated: 8/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.75

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-56016

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-cgi-session

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-56016