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Fedora 44 : composer (2026-5995821369)

high Nessus Plugin ID 343055

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-5995821369 advisory.

 ### Version 2.10.3 - 2026-08-27

 * **Security**: Validate package bin paths against path traversal using symlinks (GHSA-96h3-5x6v-m776, CVE-2026-59944)
 * **Security**: Fixed command injection via malicious Perforce url (GHSA-rvx4-ffvw-m9q3)
 * **Security**: Sanitize URL-embedded usernames/token in a few more places (#13044)
 * **Security**: Fixed matching of gitlab URLs to avoid possible credential leak to the wrong domain (#12988)
 * Fixed PHP 8.6 deprecation warnings (#12967, #13028)
 * Fixed error output when a policy blocks a package version to be clearer (#12993)
 * Fixed the lock file's content-hash with a conflict marker ending up breaking at runtime (#13048)
 * Fixed possible race condition while creating directories like the cache dir when running multiple Composer processes in parallel (#12977)
 * Fixed forgejo support to handle empty repositories better (#12968)
 * Fixed FilterListApiClient not forwarding transport options (#13040)



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 composer package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-5995821369

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 343055

File Name: fedora_2026-5995821369.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2026

Updated: 9/5/2026

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84361

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 6.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:composer

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: 8/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59944, CVE-2026-84361