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Fedora 43 : ntpd-rs (2026-a9929d5b4b)

low Nessus Plugin ID 374891

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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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-a9929d5b4b advisory.

 Rebuild ntpd-rs with newer versions of the rustls and rustls-webpki crates to address multiple security vulnerabilities (RUSTSEC-2026-0049, RUSTSEC-2026-0098, RUSTSEC-2026-0099, RUSTSEC-2026-0104, RUSTSEC-2026-0285, RUSTSEC-2026-0346, RUSTSEC-2026-0347, RUSTSEC-2026-0348, RUSTSEC-2026-0349, RUSTSEC-2026-0382).

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 ntpd-rs package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a9929d5b4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 374891

File Name: fedora_2026-a9929d5b4b.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-93601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.2

Temporal Score: 2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Threat Score: 0.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntpd-rs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-93601