RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.5.1 Async Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:7605)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237349

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7605 advisory.

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

Security Fix(es):

* rubygem-rack: Unbounded-Parameter DoS in Rack::QueryParser (CVE-2025-46727)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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 affected rubygem-rack package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?e94bfd15

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364966

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-33429

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-33430

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-33431

http://www.nessus.org/u?abe3a37a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7605

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237349

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7605.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: 4.4

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-2025-46727

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rack, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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: 5/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46727

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2025:7605