RHEL 9 : cups (RHSA-2025:16590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 265798

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for cups.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:16590 advisory.

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

Security Fix(es):

* cups: Authentication Bypass in CUPS Authorization Handling (CVE-2025-58060)

* cups: Null Pointer Dereference in CUPS ipp_read_io() Leading to Remote DoS (CVE-2025-58364)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL cups package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:16590.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 265798

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-16590.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2025

Updated: 9/24/2025

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: 6.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58060

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-printerapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-ipptool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cups-filesystem

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58060, CVE-2025-58364

CWE: 287, 476

RHSA: 2025:16590

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