Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-52999

high Nessus Plugin ID 248238

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

- jackson-core contains core low-level incremental (streaming) parser and generator abstractions used by Jackson Data Processor. In versions prior to 2.15.0, if a user parses an input file and it has deeply nested data, Jackson could end up throwing a StackoverflowError if the depth is particularly large.
jackson-core 2.15.0 contains a configurable limit for how deep Jackson will traverse in an input document, defaulting to an allowable depth of 1000. jackson-core will throw a StreamConstraintsException if the limit is reached. jackson-databind also benefits from this change because it uses jackson-core to parse JSON inputs. As a workaround, users should avoid parsing input files from untrusted sources.
(CVE-2025-52999)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 248238

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_52999.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 9/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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:pki-resteasy-jackson2-provider, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jackson-core, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-resteasy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jackson-core, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-resteasy-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-resteasy-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-resteasy-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-resteasy-servlet-initializer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-resteasy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-resteasy-jackson2-provider, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:resteasy-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-resteasy-servlet-initializer, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-resteasy-client, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-52999

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