The issue was addressed with improved UI. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, Safari 18. 6. Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing.

suse_linux SUSE-SU-2025:02777-1: SUSE SLES15 : Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important) (SUSE-SU-2025:02777-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02973-1 advisory.

    - Update to version 2.48.5:
      - CVE-2025-31273: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption     (bsc#1247564)
      - CVE-2025-43265: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content disclosing internal states of the app     (bsc#1247600)
      - CVE-2025-43216: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash     (bsc#1247596)
      - CVE-2025-31278: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption     (bsc#1247563)
      - CVE-2025-6558: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash.
    (bsc#1247742)
      - CVE-2025-43227: Fixed Processing maliciously crafted web content disclosing sensitive user information     (bsc#1247597)
      - CVE-2025-43240: Fixed downloads origin incorrectly associated (bsc#1247599)
      - CVE-2025-43228: Fixed visiting a malicious website leading to address bar spoofing (bsc#1247598)
      - CVE-2025-43212: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash     (bsc#1247595)
      - CVE-2025-43211: Fixed processing web content leading to a denial-of-service (bsc#1247562)
      - Fix several crashes.
      - Changes in version 2.48.4:
      - Improve emoji font selection with USE_SKIA=ON.
      - Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
      - Fix the build with USE_SKIA_OPENTYPE_SVG=ON and         USE_SYSPROF_CAPTURE=ON.
      - Fix the build on LoongArch with USE_SKIA=ON.
      - Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen         window.
      - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
      - Changes in version 2.48.3:
      - Fix a crash introduced by the new threaded rendering         implementation using Skia API.
      - Improve rendering performance by recording layers once and         replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
      - Fix a crash when setting WEBKIT_SKIA_GPU_PAINTING_THREADS=0.
      - Fix a reference cycle in webkitmediastreamsrc preventing its         disposal.

    - CVE-2024-44192:Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected process crash     (bsc#1239863)
    - CVE-2024-54467: Fixed data cross-origin exfiltration due to a cookie management issue (bsc#1239864)
    - CVE-2025-24201: Fixed out-of-bounds write vulnerability (bsc#1239547)
    - CVE-2025-24189: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption     (bsc#1247565)

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

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

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-4276 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4276-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/               Emilio Pozuelo Monfort     August 20, 2025                               https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : webkit2gtk     Version        : 2.48.5-1~deb11u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-6558 CVE-2025-31273 CVE-2025-31278 CVE-2025-43211                      CVE-2025-43212 CVE-2025-43216 CVE-2025-43227 CVE-2025-43228                      CVE-2025-43240 CVE-2025-43265

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2025-6558

        Clement Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov discovered that processing         maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-31273

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory         corruption.

    CVE-2025-31278

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory         corruption.

    CVE-2025-43211

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

    CVE-2025-43212

        Nan Wang and Ziling Chen discovered that processing maliciously         crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-43216

        Ignacio Sanmillan discovered that processing maliciously crafted         web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-43227

        Gilad Moav discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may disclose sensitive user information.

    CVE-2025-43228

        Jaydev Ahire discovered that visiting a malicious website may lead         to address bar spoofing.

    CVE-2025-43240

        Syarif Muhammad Sajjad discovered that a download's origin may be         incorrectly associated.

    CVE-2025-43265

        HexRabbit discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may disclose internal states of the app.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version     2.48.5-1~deb11u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

    For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7702-1 advisory.

    Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were     tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to     web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary     code execution.

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

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The issue was addressed with improved UI. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, Safari 18. 6.
    Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. (CVE-2025-43228)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of webkitgtk4 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.48.5-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2970 advisory.

    A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 11,     macOS Sequoia 15, Safari 18, visionOS 2, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, tvOS 18. A malicious website may exfiltrate     data cross-origin. (CVE-2024-54467)

    The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.3, visionOS 2.3, iOS 18.3     and iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content     may lead to memory corruption. (CVE-2025-24189)

    This issue was addressed with improved handling of floats. This issue is fixed in tvOS 18.4, Safari 18.4,     iPadOS 17.7.6, iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4. A type confusion issue could lead to memory     corruption. (CVE-2025-24213)

    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 11.5, tvOS 18.5, iOS     18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, macOS Sequoia 15.5, visionOS 2.5, Safari 18.5. Processing maliciously crafted web     content may lead to memory corruption. (CVE-2025-24223)

    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, macOS Sequoia     15.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, tvOS 18.6, watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6. Processing maliciously crafted web     content may lead to memory corruption. (CVE-2025-31273)

    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, iPadOS 17.7.9,     watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6. Processing     maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption. (CVE-2025-31278)

    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, macOS Sequoia     15.6, iPadOS 17.7.9, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, tvOS 18.6, watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6. Processing web     content may lead to a denial-of-service. (CVE-2025-43211)

    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, macOS Sequoia     15.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, tvOS 18.6, watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6. Processing maliciously crafted web     content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash. (CVE-2025-43212)

    A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6,     watchOS 11.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, iPadOS 17.7.9, tvOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, visionOS 2.6.
    Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash. (CVE-2025-43216)

    This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, iOS 18.6     and iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6, watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6. Processing maliciously crafted     web content may disclose sensitive user information. (CVE-2025-43227)

    The issue was addressed with improved UI. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, Safari 18. 6.
    Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. (CVE-2025-43228)

    A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.6, Safari 18. 6.
    A download's origin may be incorrectly associated. (CVE-2025-43240)

    An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6,     watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6. Processing     maliciously crafted web content may disclose internal states of the app. (CVE-2025-43265)

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

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

The remote Debian 12 / 13 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5978 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5978-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     August 18, 2025                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-6558 CVE-2025-31273 CVE-2025-31278 CVE-2025-43211                      CVE-2025-43212 CVE-2025-43216 CVE-2025-43227 CVE-2025-43228                      CVE-2025-43240 CVE-2025-43265

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2025-6558

        Clement Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov discovered that processing         maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-31273

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory         corruption.

    CVE-2025-31278

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory         corruption.

    CVE-2025-43211

        Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu, and Xiaojie Wei discovered that         processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

    CVE-2025-43212

        Nan Wang and Ziling Chen discovered that processing maliciously         crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-43216

        Ignacio Sanmillan discovered that processing maliciously crafted         web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

    CVE-2025-43227

        Gilad Moav discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may disclose sensitive user information.

    CVE-2025-43228

        Jaydev Ahire discovered that visiting a malicious website may lead         to address bar spoofing.

    CVE-2025-43240

        Syarif Muhammad Sajjad discovered that a download's origin may be         incorrectly associated.

    CVE-2025-43265

        HexRabbit discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may disclose internal states of the app.

    For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed     in version 2.48.5-1~deb12u1.

    For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in     version 2.48.5-1~deb13u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

    For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02765-1 advisory.

    Updated to version 2.48.5:
      - CVE-2025-31273: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to     memory corruption. (bsc#1247564)
      - CVE-2025-31278: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to     memory corruption. (bsc#1247563)
      - CVE-2025-43211: Fixed a vulnerability where processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
    (bsc#1247562)
      - CVE-2025-43212: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247595)
      - CVE-2025-43216: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247596)
      - CVE-2025-43227: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose     sensitive user information. (bsc#1247597)
      - CVE-2025-43228: Fixed a vulnerability where visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar     spoofing. (bsc#1247598)
      - CVE-2025-43240: Fixed a vulnerability where a download's origin may be incorrectly associated.
    (bsc#1247599)
      - CVE-2025-43265: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose     internal states of the app. (bsc#1247600)
      - CVE-2025-6558: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247742)

    Other fixes:
    - Improve emoji font selection with USE_SKIA=ON.
    - Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
    - Fix the build with USE_SKIA_OPENTYPE_SVG=ON and       USE_SYSPROF_CAPTURE=ON.
    - Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen       window.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
    - Fix a crash introduced by the new threaded rendering       implementation using Skia API.
    - Improve rendering performance by recording layers once and       replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
    - Fix a crash when setting WEBKIT_SKIA_GPU_PAINTING_THREADS=0.
    - Fix a reference cycle in webkitmediastreamsrc preventing its       disposal.
    - Increase mem_per_process again to avoid running out of memory.

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02766-1 advisory.

    Updated to version 2.48.5:
      - CVE-2025-31273: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to     memory corruption. (bsc#1247564)
      - CVE-2025-31278: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to     memory corruption. (bsc#1247563)
      - CVE-2025-43211: Fixed a vulnerability where processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
    (bsc#1247562)
      - CVE-2025-43212: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247595)
      - CVE-2025-43216: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247596)
      - CVE-2025-43227: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose     sensitive user information. (bsc#1247597)
      - CVE-2025-43228: Fixed a vulnerability where visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar     spoofing. (bsc#1247598)
      - CVE-2025-43240: Fixed a vulnerability where a download's origin may be incorrectly associated.
    (bsc#1247599)
      - CVE-2025-43265: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose     internal states of the app. (bsc#1247600)
      - CVE-2025-6558: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an     unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247742)

    Other fixes:
    - Improve emoji font selection with USE_SKIA=ON.
    - Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
    - Fix the build with USE_SKIA_OPENTYPE_SVG=ON and       USE_SYSPROF_CAPTURE=ON.
    - Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen       window.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
    - Fix a crash introduced by the new threaded rendering       implementation using Skia API.
    - Improve rendering performance by recording layers once and       replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
    - Fix a crash when setting WEBKIT_SKIA_GPU_PAINTING_THREADS=0.
    - Fix a reference cycle in webkitmediastreamsrc preventing its       disposal.
    - Increase mem_per_process again to avoid running out of memory.

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

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

The version of Apple iOS running on the mobile device is prior to 18.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255211	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02973-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
252959	Debian dla-4276 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
252949	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : WebKitGTK vulnerabilities (USN-7702-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
252410	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-43228	Nessus	Misc.	medium
252299	Amazon Linux 2 : webkitgtk4 (ALAS-2025-2970)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
251239	Debian dsa-5978 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
249227	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02765-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
249218	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02766-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
243003	Apple iOS < 18.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (124147)	Nessus	Mobile Devices	high

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