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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-3573

medium Nessus Plugin ID 257978

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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.

 - Versions of the package jquery-validation before 1.20.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the showLabel() function, which may take input from a user-controlled placeholder value. This value will populate a message via $.validator.messages in a user localizable dictionary. (CVE-2025-3573)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-3573

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-3573

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-3573

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 257978

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_3573.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/27/2025

Updated: 10/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-9.0-source-built-artifacts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aspnetcore-runtime-9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:civicrm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-9.0-source-built-artifacts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-hostfxr-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-dbg-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:phpmyadmin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:civicrm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-targeting-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-runtime-dbg-9.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-templates-9.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aspnetcore-runtime-dbg-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-aot-9.0, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-runtime-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-dbg-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-aot-9.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kalkun, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-apphost-pack-9.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-templates-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-dbg-9.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:znuny, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-dbg-9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-9.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:znuny, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpmyadmin

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: 4/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3573