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RHEL 9 : Satellite 6.17.3 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:13269)

high Nessus Plugin ID 245209

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:13269 advisory.

 Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

 Security Fix(es):

 * puppetserver: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

 * puppet-agent: REXML ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-49761)

 Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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 affected puppet-agent and / or puppetserver packages.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee47e744

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322153

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35573

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35575

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35576

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35577

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35579

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35580

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35581

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35582

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35583

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35584

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35586

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35587

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-35718

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-36341

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-36426

http://www.nessus.org/u?debf15ca

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:13269

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 245209

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-13269.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49761

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:puppetserver, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:puppet-agent

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: 8/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49761

CWE: 1333

RHSA: 2025:13269