RHEL 8 : perl-FCGI:0.78 (RHSA-2025:8698)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240693

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl-FCGI:0.78.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8698 advisory.

The perl-FCGI package provides a Perl module for writing FastCGI applications. FastCGI is a more efficient alternative to traditional CGI, as it keeps application processes persistent across multiple requests.
This module allows Perl web applications to handle requests faster and with lower resource overhead, making it suitable for high-traffic environments.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-fcgi: FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library (CVE-2025-40907)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL perl-FCGI:0.78 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:8698.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240693

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-8698.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/26/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2025-40907

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fcgi, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8

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: 6/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40907

CWE: 1395

RHSA: 2025:8698

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