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Oracle Linux 8 : httpd:2.4 (ELSA-2025-23732)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279857

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-23732 advisory.

 - Resolves: RHEL-135054 - httpd: Apache HTTP Server: mod_userdir+suexec bypass via AllowOverride FileInfo (CVE-2025-66200)
 - Resolves: RHEL-135039 - httpd: Apache HTTP Server: CGI environment variable override (CVE-2025-65082)
 - Resolves: RHEL-134471 - httpd: Apache HTTP Server: Server Side Includes adds query string to #exec cmd=... (CVE-2025-58098)
 - Resolves: RHEL-127073 - mod_ssl: allow more fine grained SSL SNI vhost check to avoid unnecessary 421 errors after CVE-2025-23048 fix
 - Resolves: RHEL-99944 - CVE-2025-49812 httpd: HTTP Session Hijack via a TLS upgrade
 - Resolves: RHEL-99969 - CVE-2024-47252 httpd: insufficient escaping of user-supplied data in mod_ssl
 - Resolves: RHEL-99961 - CVE-2025-23048 httpd: access control bypass by trusted clients is possible using TLS 1.3 session resumption
 - Resolves: RHEL-46040 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Security issues via backend applications whose response headers are malicious or exploitable (CVE-2024-38476)
 - Resolves: RHEL-53022 - Regression introduced by CVE-2024-38474 fix
 - Resolves: RHEL-45812 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38474)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45785 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Encoding problem in mod_proxy (CVE-2024-38473)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45777 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38475)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45758 - httpd:2.4/httpd: null pointer dereference in mod_proxy (CVE-2024-38477)
 - Resolves: RHEL-45743 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Potential SSRF in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-39573)
 - Resolves: RHEL-31857 - httpd:2.4/httpd: HTTP response splitting (CVE-2023-38709)
 - Resolves: RHEL-14448 - httpd: mod_macro: out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2023-31122)

 mod_http2
 - Resolves: RHEL-105186 - httpd:2.4/httpd: untrusted input from a client causes an assertion to fail in the Apache mod_proxy_http2 module (CVE-2025-49630)
 - Resolves: RHEL-58454 - mod_proxy_http2 failures after CVE-2024-38477 fix
 - Resolves: RHEL-29817 - httpd:2.4/mod_http2: httpd: CONTINUATION frames DoS (CVE-2024-27316)
 - Resolves: RHEL-13367 - httpd:2.4/mod_http2: reset requests exhaust memory (incomplete fix of CVE-2023-44487)(CVE-2023-45802)
 - Resolves: #2177748 - CVE-2023-25690 httpd:2.4/httpd: HTTP request splitting with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
 - Resolves: #2035030 - CVE-2021-44224 httpd:2.4/httpd: possible NULL dereference or SSRF in forward proxy configurations

 mod_md
 - Resolves: RHEL-134487 - httpd:2.4/httpd: Apache HTTP Server: mod_md (ACME), unintended retry intervals (CVE-2025-55753)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-23732.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 279857

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-23732.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/25/2025

Updated: 12/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_md, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_session, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_proxy_html, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mod_http2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:httpd-tools

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: 12/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55753, CVE-2025-58098, CVE-2025-65082, CVE-2025-66200