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Fedora 41 : exim (2025-ab7148736c)

🗓️ 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Fedora 41 hosts have exim package vulnerable to CVE 2025-30232 as per advisory FEDORA-2025-ab7148736c.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-ab7148736c
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(233881);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/21");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-30232");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2025-ab7148736c");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2025-A-0206-S");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 41 : exim (2025-ab7148736c)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
FEDORA-2025-ab7148736c advisory.

    This is an update fixing CVE 2025-30232.


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.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-ab7148736c");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected exim package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-30232");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/03/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/03/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/04/05");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:exim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025-2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm2.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'Fedora' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_release = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
if (isnull(os_release)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
if (! preg(pattern:"^41([^0-9]|$)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 41', 'Fedora ' + os_release);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '41',
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'exim-4.98.2-1.fc41', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }

  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    var reference = NULL;
    var sp = NULL;
    var _cpu = NULL;
    var el_string = NULL;
    var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    var epoch = NULL;
    var allowmaj = NULL;
    var exists_check = NULL;
    var cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        ## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
        rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'exim');
}

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