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RHEL 9 : jq (RHSA-2025:10615)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241566

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for jq.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10615 advisory.

 jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. jq is like sed for JSON data. You can use it to slice, filter, map, or transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep, or similar applications allow you to manipulate text.

 Security Fix(es):

 * jq: jq has signed integer overflow in jv.c:jvp_array_write (CVE-2024-23337)

 * jq: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt) (CVE-2025-48060)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL jq package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:10615.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367807

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367842

http://www.nessus.org/u?30a38c85

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10615

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241566

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-10615.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 4.4

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-2025-48060

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23337, CVE-2025-48060

CWE: 125, 126

RHSA: 2025:10615