RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16.1 security (Important) (RHSA-2025:8269)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237422

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8269 advisory.

The Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16.1 release provides security updates to the Argo CD CLI, Argo Rollouts CLI and MicroShift GitOps.

Security Fix(es):

* openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9: Improper URL Sanitization in Argo CD Repository Page Allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) [gitops-1.16](CVE-2025-47933)

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 packages.

See Also

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

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/GITOPS-6885

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c1ea5d7

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8269

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237422

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-8269.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2025

Updated: 5/28/2025

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: 6.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47933

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-gitops-argocd-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-gitops, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:microshift-gitops-release-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-gitops-argocd-cli-redistributable

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: 5/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47933

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2025:8269