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RHEL 9 : opentelemetry-collector (RHSA-2025:15406)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 261674

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for opentelemetry-collector.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:15406 advisory.

 Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

 Security Fix(es):

 * net/http: Sensitive headers not cleared on cross-origin redirect in net/http (CVE-2025-4673)

 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 opentelemetry-collector package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:15406.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373305

http://www.nessus.org/u?5e903c08

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15406

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 261674

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-15406.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2025

Updated: 9/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4673

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opentelemetry-collector

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4673