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Fedora 43 : cockpit-files (2026-a643ae21d6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 362817

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-a643ae21d6 advisory.

 Automatic update for cockpit-files-45-1.fc43.

 ##### **Changelog for cockpit-files**

 ```
 * Wed Sep 23 2026 Packit <[email protected]> - 45-1
 - Fixes CVE-2026-91202, CVE-2026-91203, CVE-2026-91205
 - Resolves RHEL-263138, RHEL-263139, RHEL-263144 for rhel-10.4
 - Resolves RHEL-263135, RHEL-263137, RHEL-263145 for rhel-9.10

 ```


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 cockpit-files package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a643ae21d6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 362817

File Name: fedora_2026-a643ae21d6.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.42

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-91202

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cockpit-files

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-91202, CVE-2026-91203, CVE-2026-91205