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RHEL 9 : git (RHSA-2025:11462)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242476

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11462 advisory.

 Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository is an exact copy with complete revision history. This not only allows the user to work on and contribute to projects without the need to have permission to push the changes to their official repositories, but also makes it possible for the user to work with no network connection.

 Security Fix(es):

 * git: Git does not sanitize URLs when asking for credentials interactively (CVE-2024-50349)

 * git: Newline confusion in credential helpers can lead to credential exfiltration in git (CVE-2024-52006)

 * git: Git arbitrary code execution (CVE-2025-48384)

 * git: Git arbitrary file writes (CVE-2025-48385)

 * gitk: Git file creation flaw (CVE-2025-27613)

 * gitk: git script execution flaw (CVE-2025-27614)

 * git: Git GUI can create and overwrite files for which the user has write permission (CVE-2025-46835)

 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 git package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:11462.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337824

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337956

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2378806

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2378808

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379124

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379125

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379326

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f8f99a5

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11462

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242476

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-11462.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2025

Updated: 7/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.7

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48385

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27614

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 7.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitweb, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-email, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-core-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-daemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-subtree, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-credential-libsecret

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: 7/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50349, CVE-2024-52006, CVE-2025-27613, CVE-2025-27614, CVE-2025-46835, CVE-2025-48384, CVE-2025-48385

CWE: 150, 59, 73, 88

RHSA: 2025:11462