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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-61912

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270276

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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.

 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux - python-ldap: python-ldap Vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output and Improper Null Termination (CVE-2025-61912)

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-2025-61912

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270276

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_61912.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/14/2025

Updated: 9/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61912

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ldap

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-61912