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Fedora 44 : trafficserver (2026-56b692bd7b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 374092

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-56b692bd7b advisory.

 Changes with Apache Traffic Server 10.2.1 #13553 - origin_server_auth: Improve log messages #13567 - Metrics: Revert added locking and annotations #13505 - Add hidden metrics and MAX/MIN/incremental derived metric aggregation #13538 - Fix records_yaml startup lookup race #13510 - doc: rate_limit uses max_age, not max-age #13238 - prefetch: move cache key acquisition to CACHE_LOOKUP_COMPLETE #13580 - compress: add Vary to cached client responses #13506 - Per upstream server connection metrics via hidden and derived metrics #13577 - Fix silently dropped Streams.all autest assertions #13110 - Add `_reload` directive support for config reload framework.
 #13589 - Skip rate_limit AuTests when plugin not built #13593 - Fix Clang 21 analyzer findings #13576 - Fix client certificate context updates #13578 - Remove dead JSONRPC server_shutdown handler #13227 - Fix data race in SSLCertContext copy & assignment #13642 - Proxy Verifier v3.2.0 #13558 - dns: fix remaining-space tracking when copying address records #13570 - Argparser variable arg option parsing fix/improvement.
 #13583 - Metrics: close the id lookup race and bounds gaps left by the lock revert #13652 - Restore regex_remap's default PCRE2 match limit #13646 - header_rewrite: build the matcher for %{LAST-CAPTURE} conditions #13514 - Share HTTP accept properties #13645 - Cleanup LogField Registration #13063 - Add changelog generation tool for GitHub milestones #13574 - Fix TransformVConnection leak in abort_tunnel() #13450 - h2origin autest: honor the 30s squid.log wait budget #13672 - header_rewrite: guard the i == 0 case in HRWSimpleTokenizer #13673 - Fix build errors with LLVM 23 #13616 - Allow a metric to be unlisted #13697 - Fix strncasecmp checks that accepted a prefix as equal #13355 - Add --version CLI flag to hrw4u #13666 - Retract per server metrics when the mode changes #13700 - Fix the 9.2 compatibility cache key for paths that carry ;params #13696 - hrw4u: admit SESSION_VARS as a denyable section #13611 - Make the 9.2 compatibility cache key usable end to end #13571 - Use __atomic builtins as the freelist 128-bit CAS fallback #13655 - QPACK: use || in the varint decode range guards #13656 - hrw4u: exit non-zero on compile errors #13699 - hrw4u: add an AST round-trip test over the whole corpus #13675 - hrw4u: enforce sandbox NOT and in on their implicit spellings #13653 - Handle all cachekey regex capture groups #13715 - Test 103 Early Hints before a cached range response #13718 - cache: retry without O_DIRECT for an explicit file span #13560 - Honor allow_half_open when a client aborts early #13455 - Reuse deleted MIME field slots #13677 - Fix global TLS ticket key use for certificate contexts #13717 - tests: cover the global TLSv1.3 session ticket count #13740 - Coverity: avoid unsigned wrap in AIO cache_op loop #13728 - Fix SSL 2.0 version code in JA4 fingerprints #13736 - Bind session ticket keys to the dest_ip certificate #13719 - Hex-encode non-alphanumeric ALPN bytes in JA4 fingerprints #13725 - Include signature algorithms in JA4 fingerprints #13762 - Python 3.15: accommodate PyYAML without CLoader #13761 - Handle OpenSSL 4 handshake buffer exhaustion #13760 - Support OpenSSL 4 certificate accessors in WASM #13695 - Fix HTTP flow control policy reload #13759 - Remove unused globals rejected by Clang 23 #13766 - Harden shutdown against repeated exit signals #13782 - Fix parsing of bodyless HTTP/2 origin responses over 4 KB #13351 - Handle HTTP/2 1xx interim responses from the origin #13447 - HTTP/2 to origin session pool and reliability fixes #13776 - compress: use weak ETags for compressed responses #13783 - Drain an HTTP/2 origin session after it sends GOAWAY #13723 - tests: drive tls_sni_groups with openssl s_client #13780 - Deliver H2 END_STREAM that arrives while read is throttled #13729 - Honor TLS handshake hook pauses on BoringSSL #13763 - Frame empty TLS origin responses in AuTests #13674 - hrw4u: enforce sandbox policy on value functions #13767 - cache: keep the stripe locked after the shutdown dir sync #13559 - Build the well-known-string table at compile time #13376 - Reduce repeated work in HTTP header parsing #13739 - hrw4u: report each sandbox warning at the use that triggers it Fix use-after-free in wasm plugin TXN_CLOSE epilogue Compare h2 Content-Length and payload at full width wasm: Validate metric ID before making API call http: reject HEAD requests carrying Content-Length/Transfer-Encoding Throttle @ header strip logs tsmemcache: bind to loopback by default and add configurable bind address Regex: optionally require whole-subject matches for policy rules Strip unauthorized x-amz- request headers in origin_server_auth CVE-2025-55702 - Fix request with POST Expect: 100-continue Require a matching client certificate for outbound session reuse magick: require signing key and allowlist convert operators origin_server_auth: clarify x-amz- stripping scope in docs and comments proxy: reject resumed TLS sessions missing a required client cert Fix mTLS for TLS resumption scenarios Drop the special case for badly formed 302 responses doc: correct the regex matching contract where sites enforce full match Size chunked passthrough writes without dropped trailers chunked_encoding: add regression test for chunked responses with trailers Reuse an origin connection only after its request body is written doc: record the security release in the release notes Count the Pad Length field in the h2 DATA padding check Fix a SIGSEGV in UnixNetVConnection::net_write_io on dechunked POST responses


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 trafficserver package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-56b692bd7b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 374092

File Name: fedora_2026-56b692bd7b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2026

Updated: 10/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

Percentile: 58.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55702

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:trafficserver

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55702