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Fedora 43 : perl-URI (2026-09941e744b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 339199

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-09941e744b advisory.

 5.36 - Apply Unicode NFC normalization in URI::_idna nameprep so IDNA host encoding matches other clients instead of emitting a non-standard, non-round-tripping A-label [CVE-2026-19953]



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-URI package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-09941e744b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 339199

File Name: fedora_2026-09941e744b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2026

Updated: 8/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-19953

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-19953