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RHEL 10 : aide (RHSA-2025:14592)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 255221

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14592 advisory.

 Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) is a utility that creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that database to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.

 Security Fix(es):

 * aide: improper output neutralization enables bypassing (CVE-2025-54389)

 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 aide package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:14592.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388019

http://www.nessus.org/u?325eea4d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14592

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 255221

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-14592.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2025

Updated: 8/26/2025

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-54389

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aide

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-54389

CWE: 117

RHSA: 2025:14592