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RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.5.3 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:9838)
high Nessus Plugin ID 240696
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9838 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):
* cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_InsertItemInArray (CVE-2023-50471)
* cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_SetValuestring (CVE-2023-50472)
* cjson: segmentation violation trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c (CVE-2024-31755)
* rubygem-rack: Unbounded-Parameter DoS in Rack::QueryParser (CVE-2025-46727)
* python-sqlparse: sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service (CVE-2024-4340)
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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected cjson, python3.11-sqlparse and / or rubygem-rack packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278038
http://www.nessus.org/u?0670c292
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254641
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254643
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 240696
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9838.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: Medium
Score: 4.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
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: 6.7
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-sqlparse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlparse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cjson, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rack
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: 6/26/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-50471, CVE-2023-50472, CVE-2024-31755, CVE-2024-4340, CVE-2025-46727