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RHEL 9 : nginx (RHSA-2025:7331)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235802

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for nginx.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7331 advisory.

 nginx is a web and proxy server supporting HTTP and other protocols, with a focus on high concurrency, performance, and low memory usage.

 Security Fix(es):

 * nginx: TLS Session Resumption Vulnerability (CVE-2025-23419)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from 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 nginx package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7331.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7e51e86

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344005

http://www.nessus.org/u?90cb56f3

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7331

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235802

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7331.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2025

Updated: 5/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23419

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-http-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-all-modules, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-http-image-filter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-mail, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-stream, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter

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: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23419

CWE: 287

RHSA: 2025:7331