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Fedora 46 : gum (2026-023898bef1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 338832

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 46 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-023898bef1 advisory.

 Automatic update for gum-2.0.0-1.fc46.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Fri Aug 21 2026 Carl George <[email protected]> - 2.0.0-1
 - Update to version 2.0.0 (rhbz#2495240)
 - Override bundled golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 (CVE-2026-25680 CVE-2026-25681 CVE-2026-42506)

 ```

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 gum package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-023898bef1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 338832

File Name: fedora_2026-023898bef1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2026

Updated: 8/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42506

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:46, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gum

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25680, CVE-2026-25681, CVE-2026-42506