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Fedora 44 : pcre2 (2026-450395b11f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 377572

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-450395b11f advisory.

 Update pcre2 to 10.49, fixing security issues (CVE-2026-86145, CVE-2026-89156, CVE-2026-89157, CVE-2026-89158, CVE-2026-89160, CVE-2026-89161, CVE-2026-89162, CVE-2026-103111)

 Release notes:
 https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/releases/tag/pcre2-10.49 https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/releases#release-pcre2-10.48

 ABI changes were checked between 10.47 and 10.49 and were not found to be significant, the updates are primarily focused on fixing security vulnerabilities.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected pcre2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-450395b11f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 377572

File Name: fedora_2026-450395b11f.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: 5.5

Percentile: 95.85

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89161

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre2

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: 10/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-103111, CVE-2026-86145, CVE-2026-89156, CVE-2026-89157, CVE-2026-89158, CVE-2026-89160, CVE-2026-89161, CVE-2026-89162