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RHEL 9 : php (RHSA-2025:7431)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 237315
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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-2025:7431 advisory.PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.
Security Fix(es):
* php: Header parser of http stream wrapper does not handle folded headers (CVE-2025-1217)
* php: Stream HTTP wrapper header check might omit basic auth header (CVE-2025-1736)
* php: Streams HTTP wrapper does not fail for headers with invalid name and no colon (CVE-2025-1734)
* php: libxml streams use wrong content-type header when requesting a redirected resource (CVE-2025-1219)
* php: Stream HTTP wrapper truncates redirect location to 1024 bytes (CVE-2025-1861)
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 php package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7431.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355917
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356041
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356042
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356043
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356046
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 237315
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7431.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/27/2025
Updated: 5/27/2025
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: 4.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1219
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.3
Threat Score: 2.9
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1861
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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, 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: 3/12/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-1217, CVE-2025-1219, CVE-2025-1734, CVE-2025-1736, CVE-2025-1861