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Oracle Linux 9 : podman (ELSA-2025-21702)

high Nessus Plugin ID 276892

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-21702 advisory.

 - fixes '[Minor Incident] CVE-2025-52881 podman: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects [rhel-9.7.z]'
 - fixes 'CVE-2025-9566 podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files [rhel-9.7]'

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-21702.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 276892

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-21702.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2025

Updated: 11/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Threat Score: 4.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-tests

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-52881