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Fedora 44 : dnf5 (2026-97ca946ad2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 377552

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-2026-97ca946ad2 advisory.

 Update to upstream version 5.4.7.

 - reposync: add --latest-limit=N option
 - dnf5-plugin config-manager: add vendor policy management commands
 - offline: Wait for shutdown inhibitors before reboot
 - offline: acquire delay lock before triggering reboot
 - automatic: support IPv6 network availability checks
 - Always show cursor during userconfirm
 - dnf5: Add more vendor change control command-line options
 - dnf5: Add --disable-vendor-policy-source CLI option
 - dnf5: Suggest --with-vendor-policy in vendor change hints
 - dnf5: Add --with-vendor-policy and --clear-vendor-policies CLI options
 - config-manager: Allow setopt for repositories created by plugins
 - deptree: Add dependency tree command plugin
 - Add repository metadata cache age output
 - Renamed rhsm libdnf5 plugin to rhsm-container



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 dnf5 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-97ca946ad2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 377552

File Name: fedora_2026-97ca946ad2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2026

Updated: 11/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.57

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-111253

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dnf5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111253