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Fedora 46 : openscap (2026-88e8f36e7b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 371417

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 46 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-88e8f36e7b advisory.

 Automatic update for openscap-1.4.6-1.fc46.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Fri Oct 23 2026 Jan ern <[email protected]> - 1:1.4.6-1
 - Upgrade to the latest upstream release
 - CVE-2026-85518: Fix path traversal when dumping SDS components (RHBZ#2558499)

 ```

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 1:openscap package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-88e8f36e7b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 371417

File Name: fedora_2026-88e8f36e7b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2026

Updated: 10/23/2026

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: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.45

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-85518

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:46, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openscap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-85518