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Oracle Linux 8 : httpd:2.4 (ELSA-2025-15123)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 261333

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-15123 advisory.

 - Resolves: RHEL-99944 - CVE-2025-49812 httpd: HTTP Session Hijack via a TLS upgrade
 - Resolves: RHEL-99969 - CVE-2024-47252 httpd: insufficient escaping of user-supplied data in mod_ssl
 - Resolves: RHEL-99961 - CVE-2025-23048 httpd: access control bypass by trusted clients is possible using TLS 1.3 session resumption
 - Resolves: RHEL-46040 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Security issues via backend applications whose response headers are malicious or exploitable (CVE-2024-38476)
 - Resolves: RHEL-53022 - Regression introduced by CVE-2024-38474 fix
 - Resolves: RHEL-45812 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38474)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45785 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Encoding problem in mod_proxy (CVE-2024-38473)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45777 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38475)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45758 - httpd:2.4/httpd: null pointer dereference in mod_proxy (CVE-2024-38477)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45743 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Potential SSRF in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-39573)

 mod_http2
 - Resolves: RHEL-105186 - httpd:2.4/httpd: untrusted input from a client causes an assertion to fail in the Apache mod_proxy_http2 module (CVE-2025-49630)
 - Resolves: RHEL-58454 - mod_proxy_http2 failures after CVE-2024-38477 fix

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-15123.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 261333

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-15123.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2025

Updated: 9/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23048

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:10:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_md, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_session, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_proxy_html, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_http2, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:9:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-tools

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47252, CVE-2025-23048, CVE-2025-49630, CVE-2025-49812