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Fedora 44 : mongo-c-driver (2026-4286ff2dfd)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 350797

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-2026-4286ff2dfd advisory.

 ## libbson 1.30.11

 Fixes

 - Fix length check in bson_new_from_buffer.

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 ## libmongoc 1.30.11

 Fixes

 - Fix allocation in Windows Secure Channel.
 - Fix error handling in SCRAM authentication.


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 ## libmongoc 1.30.10

 Fixes

 - Use exact match for file ID in GridFS methods **CVE-2026-88036**
 - Validate SASL username **CVE-2026-88035**


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 mongo-c-driver package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4286ff2dfd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 350797

File Name: fedora_2026-4286ff2dfd.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2026

Updated: 9/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

Percentile: 57.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-88035

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Threat Score: 2.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-88036

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mongo-c-driver

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-88035, CVE-2026-88036