RHEL 7 : webkitgtk4 (RHSA-2025:19352)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 272066

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for webkitgtk4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19352 advisory.

WebKitGTK+ is port of the WebKit portable web rendering engine to the GTK+ platform. These packages provide WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

Security Fix(es):

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (CVE-2025-43272)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43342)

* webkitgtk: A website may be able to access sensor information without user consent (CVE-2025-43356)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (CVE-2025-43368)

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 webkitgtk4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:19352.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 272066

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-19352.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/30/2025

Updated: 10/30/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43342

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-jsc-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkitgtk4-devel

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: 10/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43272, CVE-2025-43342, CVE-2025-43356, CVE-2025-43368

CWE: 119, 20, 200, 416

RHSA: 2025:19352

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