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RHEL 9 : opentelemetry-collector (RHSA-2025:7407)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235835

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for opentelemetry-collector.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7407 advisory.

 Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

 Security Fix(es):

 * go-jose: Go JOSE's Parsing Vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2025-27144)

 * golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws (CVE-2025-22868)

 * github.com/expr-lang/expr: Memory Exhaustion in Expr Parser with Unrestricted Input (CVE-2025-29786)

 * golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing (CVE-2025-30204)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL opentelemetry-collector package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7407.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2347423

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348366

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2354195

http://www.nessus.org/u?31af1062

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7407

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235835

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7407.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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2025-30204

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opentelemetry-collector, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 2/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22868, CVE-2025-27144, CVE-2025-29786, CVE-2025-30204

CWE: 1286, 405, 770

RHSA: 2025:7407