RHEL 9 : socat (RHSA-2025:10544)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 241499

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for socat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10544 advisory.

The socat utility establishes bi-directional byte streams and transfers data between them. The utility can establish streams between a large set of channels, such as files, pipes, devices, and sockets.

Security Fix(es):

* socat: arbitrary file overwrite via predictable /tmp directory (CVE-2024-54661)

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 socat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:10544.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 241499

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-10544.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-54661

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:socat

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: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-54661

CWE: 377

RHSA: 2025:10544

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