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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : KaTeX vulnerabilities (USN-7572-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240201

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7572-1 advisory.

 Juho Forsn discovered that KaTeX did not correctly handle certain inputs, which could lead to an infinite loop. If a user or application were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-28243)

 Tobias S. Fink discovered that KaTeX did not correctly block certain URL protocols. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-28246)

 It was discovered that KaTeX did not correctly handle certain inputs. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-28245)

 Sean Ng discovered that KaTeX did not correctly handle certain inputs. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-23207)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected fonts-katex, katex and / or libjs-katex packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7572-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240201

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7572-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2025

Updated: 6/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23207

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fonts-katex, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:katex, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjs-katex

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28243, CVE-2024-28245, CVE-2024-28246, CVE-2025-23207

USN: 7572-1