RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.9 (RHSA-2025:17317)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266416

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.9.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:17317 advisory.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is an update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0. See Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

* netty-codec-http2: Netty MadeYouReset HTTP/2 DDoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55163)

* netty-codec-http: Netty is vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions [eap-8.0.z] (CVE-2025-58056)

* cxf: CXF JMS Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-48913)

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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.9 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:17317.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?451267bf

https://access.redhat.com/articles/7131053

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2387221

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392996

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30702

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30733

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30757

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30758

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30760

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30762

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30886

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30888

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30890

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBEAP-30917

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb850543

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17317

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266416

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-17317.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2025

Updated: 10/2/2025

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58056

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 6.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55163

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-apache-cxf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-apache-cxf-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-apache-cxf-services, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-apache-cxf-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-codec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-codec-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-codec-http, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-handler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-handler-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-resolver-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-transport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-ws-security-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-ws-security-policy-stax, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-ws-security-stax, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-apache-cxf-xjc-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-cxf-xjc-bug986, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-cxf-xjc-dv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-eap-product-conf-parent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-eap-product-conf-wildfly-ee-feature-pack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-jbossws-cxf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-profile-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-saml-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-security-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-soap-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xacml-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xacml-saml-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-java-jdk21, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-java-jdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wildfly-java-jdk17, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-buffer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-codec-socks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-resolver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-transport-classes-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-transport-native-epoll, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-netty-transport-native-unix-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-bindings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-policy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-wss4j-ws-security-dom, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-cxf-xjc-boolean, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-cxf-xjc-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-cxf-xjc-ts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-saml-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-security-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xacml-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xacml-saml-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xmlsec-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-opensaml-xmlsec-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:eap8-xml-security

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: 10/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-48913, CVE-2025-55163, CVE-2025-58056

CWE: 20, 444, 770

RHSA: 2025:17317