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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : urllib3 vulnerabilities (USN-7927-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 278513

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7927-1 advisory.

 Illia Volochii discovered that urllib3 did not limit the steps in a decompression chain. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause urllib3 to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service.
 (CVE-2025-66418)

 Rui Xi discovered that urllib3 incorrectly handled highly compressed data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause urllib3 to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-66471)

 For the brotli encoding, the fix for CVE-2025-66471 requires an additional security update in the brotli package.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected python3-urllib3 package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7927-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 278513

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7927-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-66471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.9

Threat Score: 6.3

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:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-urllib3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-66418, CVE-2025-66471

USN: 7927-1