RHEL 10 : openjpeg2 (RHSA-2025:13944)

high Nessus Plugin ID 251025

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openjpeg2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:13944 advisory.

OpenJPEG is an open source library for reading and writing image files in JPEG2000 format.

Security Fix(es):

* openjpeg: OpenJPEG OOB heap memory write (CVE-2025-54874)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 openjpeg2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:13944.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 251025

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-13944.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/18/2025

Updated: 8/18/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-54874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Threat Score: 4.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2-devel

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: 8/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-54874

CWE: 457

RHSA: 2025:13944

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