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Amazon Linux 2 : php (ALASPHP8.1-2025-007)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243441

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of php installed on the remote host is prior to 8.1.33-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2PHP8.1-2025-007 advisory.

 fsockopen() doesn't regard hostname as well, hostname is terminated at the null byte. This can cause Server Side Request Forgery in general case. (CVE-2025-1220)

 Missing error checking could result in SQL injection and missing error handling could lead to crashes due to null pointer dereferences. (CVE-2025-1735)

 If a SoapVar instance is created with a fully qualified name larger than 2G, this will cause a NULL pointer dereference resulting in a segmentation fault, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2025-6491)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update php' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2PHP8.1-2025-007.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-1220.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-1735.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-6491.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243441

File Name: al2_ALASPHP8_1-2025-007.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2025

Updated: 8/4/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1220

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-process, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-snmp, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-dbg, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-sodium, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:php-pdo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1220, CVE-2025-1735, CVE-2025-6491

IAVA: 2025-A-0497