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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-12084

medium Nessus Plugin ID 277446

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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.

 - When building nested elements using xml.dom.minidom methods such as appendChild() that have a dependency on _clear_id_cache() the algorithm is quadratic. Availability can be impacted when building excessively nested documents. (CVE-2025-12084)

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-2025-12084

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-12084

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-12084

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 277446

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_12084.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 12/4/2025

Updated: 12/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-12084

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-test, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-idle, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-idle, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jython, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.12, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-tkinter, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-libs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-unversioned-command, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-debug, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pypy3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-rpm-macros, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-test, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-debug, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-unversioned-command, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.9, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pypy3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-debug, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.13, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-idle, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.14, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-idle, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3.11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.11-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-debug, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tkinter, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-test, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3.12-libs

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: 12/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12084