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RHEL 7 / 8 / 9 : java-11-openjdk ELS (RHSA-2025:18818)

high Nessus Plugin ID 271267

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-11-openjdk ELS.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:18818 advisory.

 The java-11-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit.

 This release contains OpenJDK 11 with Extended Lifecycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 7, 8, and 9.

 Security Fix(es):

 * JDK: Enhance Path Factories (CVE-2025-53066)

 * JDK: Enhance Certificate Handling (CVE-2025-53057)

 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 java-11-openjdk ELS package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:18818.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a030e0d3

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18818

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 271267

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-18818.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2025

Updated: 10/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53066

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-jmods, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-src-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-static-libs-debug, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-jmods-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-javadoc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-src-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-src-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-11-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53057, CVE-2025-53066

CWE: 838

RHSA: 2025:18818