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Amazon Linux 2 : redis, --advisory ALAS2REDIS6-2025-014 (ALASREDIS6-2025-014)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265068

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of redis installed on the remote host is prior to 6.2.14-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2REDIS6-2025-014 advisory.

 TOCTOU in linenoiseHistorySave in linenoise allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and change permissions via a symlink race between fopen(w) on the history path and subsequent chmod() on the same path. (CVE-2025-9810)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update redis' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2REDIS6-2025-014' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2REDIS6-2025-014.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-9810.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265068

File Name: al2_ALASREDIS6-2025-014.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2025

Updated: 9/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9810

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:redis-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:redis, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:redis-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:redis-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9810