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Fedora 45 : brotli / perl-Alien-Brotli (2026-6a639d1308)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 372201

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-6a639d1308 advisory.

 Fixes CVE-2026-111497 in new upstream release of brotli-1.2.1


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 brotli and / or perl-Alien-Brotli packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6a639d1308

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 372201

File Name: fedora_2026-6a639d1308.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

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: Critical

Score: 9.2

Percentile: 99.77

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-111497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 9.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:brotli, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-alien-brotli

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111497

FEDORA: 2026-6a639d1308

IAVA: 2026-A-1200