RHEL 8 : xmlrpc-c (RHSA-2025:4446)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235124

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xmlrpc-c.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:4446 advisory.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol that uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. The xmlrpc-c packages provide a network protocol to allow a client program to make a simple RPC (remote procedure call) over the Internet. It converts an RPC into an XML document, sends it to a remote server using HTTP, and gets back the response in XML.

Security Fix(es):

* libexpat: expat: Improper Restriction of XML Entity Expansion Depth in libexpat (CVE-2024-8176)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL xmlrpc-c package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:4446.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235124

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-4446.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/5/2025

Updated: 5/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8176

CWE: 674

RHSA: 2025:4446

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