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Fedora 43 : perl-HTML-FormHandler (2026-167a356523)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 349776

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-2026-167a356523 advisory.

 HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410002 for Perl render field attributes into HTML without escaping using the process_attrs method (CVE-2026-85630) . This update fixes that issue.

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 HTML::FormHandler versions through 0.40068 allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data as a Locale::Maketext bracket notation template.

 Versions 0.410000+ fix the issue by passing error messages with request data as Locale::Maketext arguments instead of templates.

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 perl-HTML-FormHandler package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-167a356523

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 349776

File Name: fedora_2026-167a356523.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2026

Updated: 9/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.42

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-2022-4993

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4993, CVE-2026-85630