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Fedora 45 : perl-Authen-SASL (2026-81cd7d0f41)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 346014

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-2026-81cd7d0f41 advisory.

 2.2100 - CVE-2026-86219: Replay attack in Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 Thanks to TIMLEGGE (@timlegge) and the CPANSec team for the AI-assisted detection and fix!



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-Authen-SASL package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-81cd7d0f41

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 346014

File Name: fedora_2026-81cd7d0f41.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2026

Updated: 9/15/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-86219

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-authen-sasl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-86219