RHEL 9 : php (RHSA-2025:7315)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235805

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for php.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7315 advisory.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es):

* php: host/secure cookie bypass due to partial CVE-2022-31629 fix (CVE-2024-2756)

* php: password_verify can erroneously return true, opening ATO risk (CVE-2024-3096)

* php: Filter bypass in filter_var (FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) (CVE-2024-5458)

* php: Erroneous parsing of multipart form data (CVE-2024-8925)

* php: cgi.force_redirect configuration is bypassable due to the environment variable collision (CVE-2024-8927)

* php: PHP-FPM Log Manipulation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-9026)

* php: Leak partial content of the heap through heap buffer over-read in mysqlnd (CVE-2024-8929)

* php: Single byte overread with convert.quoted-printable-decode filter (CVE-2024-11233)

* php: Configuring a proxy in a stream context might allow for CRLF injection in URIs (CVE-2024-11234)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL php package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7315.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275058

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317049

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317051

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317144

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327960

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328523

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

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-71275

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6fd0464

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7315

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235805

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7315.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: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11233

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dbg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-process

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11233, CVE-2024-11234, CVE-2024-2756, CVE-2024-3096, CVE-2024-5458, CVE-2024-8925, CVE-2024-8927, CVE-2024-8929, CVE-2024-9026

CWE: 122, 1220, 1286, 158, 20, 200, 626

RHSA: 2025:7315