Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-50952

medium Nessus Plugin ID 253586

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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.

- openjpeg v 2.5.0 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component /openjp2/dwt.c.
(CVE-2025-50952)

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: 253586

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_50952.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/22/2025

Updated: 9/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

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-2025-50952

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjpeg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg2-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg2-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2-devel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:blender, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openjpeg2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texmaker, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openjpeg2-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:insighttoolkit4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qtwebengine-opensource-src, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjpeg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openjpeg2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-50952

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