Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-14087

critical Nessus Plugin ID 277959

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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.

- A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings. (CVE-2025-14087)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 277959

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_14087.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 12/9/2025

Updated: 3/12/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-glib2-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-tests, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-glib2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-glib2, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-fam, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-glib2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-glib2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-glib2, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-glib2-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glib2-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-fam, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-glib2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-glib2-static

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14087

Detections

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