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RHEL 7 / 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 (RHSA-2025:11473)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242479

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11473 advisory.

 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

 This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

 Security Fix(es):

 * jackson-core: jackson-core Potential StackoverflowError (CVE-2025-52999)

 A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available in the References section.

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, 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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:11473.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7aafbf8

http://www.nessus.org/u?31eae5d2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374804

http://www.nessus.org/u?e8ce5d7c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11473

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 242479

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-11473.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: Medium

Score: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52999

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-datatype-jsr310, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-datatype-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-providers, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-java-jdk11, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-modules-java8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-json-provider, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-jaxrs-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-wildfly-javadocs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap7-jackson-modules-base

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: 7/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-52999

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2025:11473