Amazon Linux 2 : squid, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3027 (ALAS-2025-3027)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270518

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of squid installed on the remote host is prior to 3.5.20-17. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3027 advisory.

Squid through 7.1 mishandles ASN.1 encoding of long SNMP OIDs. This occurs in asn_build_objid in lib/snmplib/asn1.c. (CVE-2025-59362)

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 squid' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3027' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-3027.html

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

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-59362.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270518

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-3027.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2025

Updated: 10/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-migration-script

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59362