RHEL 10 : vsftpd (RHSA-2026:0606)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 284628

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for vsftpd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:0606 advisory.

The vsftpd packages include a Very Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon, which is used to serve files over a network.

Security Fix(es):

* vsftpd: vsftpd: Denial of service via integer overflow in ls command parameter parsing (CVE-2025-14242)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL vsftpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:0606.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 284628

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-0606.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14242

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vsftpd

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: 1/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14242

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2026:0606

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