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RHEL 9 : perl-Module-ScanDeps (RHSA-2025:7350)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237327

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-Module-ScanDeps.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7350 advisory.

 This module scans potential modules used by perl programs and returns a hash reference. Its keys are the module names as they appear in %INC (e.g. Test/More.pm). The values are hash references.

 Security Fix(es):

 * module-scandeps: local privilege escalation via unsanitized input (CVE-2024-10224)

 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 9.6 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 perl-Module-ScanDeps package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7350.

See Also

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

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327329

http://www.nessus.org/u?b370c225

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7350

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237327

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7350.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-scandeps, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10224

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2025:7350