The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to     crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump, allowing     the attacker to read sensitive data, such as /etc/shadow content, loaded by the original process. A SUID     binary or process has a special type of permission, which allows the process to run with the file owner's     permissions, regardless of the user executing the binary. This allows the process to access more     restricted data than unprivileged users or processes would be able to. An attacker can leverage this flaw     by forcing a SUID process to crash and force the Linux kernel to recycle the process PID before systemd-     coredump can analyze the /proc/pid/auxv file. If the attacker wins the race condition, they gain access to     the original's SUID process coredump file. They can read sensitive content loaded into memory by the     original binary, affecting data confidentiality. (CVE-2025-4598)

  - The systemd-coredump is prone to a kill-and-replace race condition which may allow a local attacker to     gain sensitive information from crashed SUID processes. Additionally systemd-coredump does not specify %d     (the kernel's per-process dumpable flag) in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern allowing a local attacker to     crash root daemons that fork() and setuid() to the attacker's uid and consequently gain read access to the     resulting core dumps and therefore to sensitive information from memory of the root daemons.
    (CVE-2025-4598)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-4598

medium Nessus Plugin ID 247900

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Version 1.3 Dec 4, 2025, 9:12 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:U/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:C") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202512040912
Version 1.2 Aug 31, 2025, 9:16 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202508310916