RHEL 9 : postgresql:15 (RHSA-2025:23023)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278081

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for postgresql:15.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:23023 advisory.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

Security Fix(es):

* postgresql: CREATE STATISTICS does not check for schema CREATE privilege (CVE-2025-12817)

* postgresql: libpq undersizes allocations, via integer wraparound (CVE-2025-12818)

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 postgresql:15 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:23023.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278081

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-23023.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/10/2025

Updated: 12/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-12818

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pgaudit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-upgrade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-contrib, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-plpython3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-private-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgres-decoderbufs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-test-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pg_repack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-server-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: 12/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12817, CVE-2025-12818

CWE: 190, 862

RHSA: 2025:23023

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