Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-6069

medium Nessus Plugin ID 252055

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.

- The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service. (CVE-2025-6069)

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: Medium

ID: 252055

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_6069.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6069

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.9, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.12, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jython, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pypy3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jython, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, 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: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6069

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