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RHEL 8 : pki-deps:10.6 (RHSA-2025:14118)

high Nessus Plugin ID 252944

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pki-deps:10.6.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14118 advisory.

 The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate System.

 Security Fix(es):

 * com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: jackson-core Potential StackoverflowError (CVE-2025-52999)

 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 pki-deps:10.6 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:14118.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374804

http://www.nessus.org/u?04076c7c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14118

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 252944

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-14118.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 8/20/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-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:glassfish-jaxb-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-bom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xml-commons-resolver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-jaxrs-json-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-4.0-api, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glassfish-fastinfoset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glassfish-jaxb-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-collections, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:javassist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-lang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xsom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-modules-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glassfish-jaxb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-jaxrs-providers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-databind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bea-stax-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xml-commons-apis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slf4j-jdk14, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlstreambuffer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:velocity, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bea-stax, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-parent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:relaxngdatatype, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glassfish-jaxb-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:resteasy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:javassist-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-net, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:stax-ex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jackson-annotations, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fasterxml-oss-parent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jakarta-commons-httpclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nss-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glassfish-jaxb-txw2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xalan-j2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-engine

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: 8/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-52999

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2025:14118