RHEL 7 : apache-commons-vfs (RHSA-2025:10548)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241502

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for apache-commons-vfs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10548 advisory.

Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive. Some of the features of Commons VFS are:
* A single consistent API for accessing files of different types.
* Support for numerous file system types.
* Caching of file information. Caches information in-JVM, and optionally can cache remote file information on the local file system.
* Event delivery.
* Support for logical file systems made up of files from various different file systems.
* Utilities for integrating Commons VFS into applications, such as a VFS-aware ClassLoader and URLStreamHandlerFactory.
* A set of VFS-enabled Ant tasks.

Security Fix(es):

* apache-commons-vfs: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT (CVE-2025-27553)

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 apache-commons-vfs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:10548.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241502

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-10548.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-vfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-vfs-ant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-vfs-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-vfs-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7

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: 3/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27553

CWE: 23

RHSA: 2025:10548

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