Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-58767

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265630

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.

- REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gems from 3.3.3 to 3.4.1 has a DoS vulnerability when parsing XML containing multiple XML declarations. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.4.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
(CVE-2025-58767)

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-2025-58767

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-58767

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-58767

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265630

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_58767.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/20/2025

Updated: 9/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58767

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby2.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rexml, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby3.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-psych, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-default-gems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-typeprof, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rbs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby2.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby2.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby3.2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts

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: 9/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58767