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Fedora 43 : firefox (2026-170e9d62c6)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 338384

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-2026-170e9d62c6 advisory.

 - Update to latest upstream (154.0)
 - Enabled Wayland session restore on KDE.

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 firefox package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-170e9d62c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 338384

File Name: fedora_2026-170e9d62c6.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2026

Updated: 8/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.75

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-75874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox

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: 8/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-74934, CVE-2026-74935, CVE-2026-74936, CVE-2026-74937, CVE-2026-74938, CVE-2026-74939, CVE-2026-74940, CVE-2026-74941, CVE-2026-74942, CVE-2026-74943, CVE-2026-74944, CVE-2026-74945, CVE-2026-74946, CVE-2026-74947, CVE-2026-74948, CVE-2026-74949, CVE-2026-74950, CVE-2026-74951, CVE-2026-74952, CVE-2026-74953, CVE-2026-74954, CVE-2026-74955, CVE-2026-74956, CVE-2026-74957, CVE-2026-74958, CVE-2026-74959, CVE-2026-74960, CVE-2026-74961, CVE-2026-74962, CVE-2026-74963, CVE-2026-74964, CVE-2026-74965, CVE-2026-74966, CVE-2026-74967, CVE-2026-74968, CVE-2026-74969, CVE-2026-74970, CVE-2026-74971, CVE-2026-74972, CVE-2026-74973, CVE-2026-74974, CVE-2026-74975, CVE-2026-74976, CVE-2026-74977, CVE-2026-74978, CVE-2026-74979, CVE-2026-74980, CVE-2026-74981, CVE-2026-74982, CVE-2026-74983, CVE-2026-74984, CVE-2026-74985, CVE-2026-74986, CVE-2026-74987, CVE-2026-74988, CVE-2026-74989, CVE-2026-74990, CVE-2026-75874

FEDORA: 2026-170e9d62c6

IAVA: 2026-A-0876