Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8860

medium Nessus Plugin ID 259891

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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.

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux - qemu-kvm: uefi-vars: information disclosure vulnerability in uefi_vars_write callback (CVE-2025-8860)

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: 259891

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_8860.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/30/2025

Updated: 8/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8860

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-pr-helper

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8860

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