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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-69421

medium Nessus Plugin ID 296772

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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.

 - Issue summary: Processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application processing PKCS#12 files. The PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function does not check whether the oct parameter is NULL before dereferencing it. When called from PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata() with a malformed PKCS#12 file, this parameter can be NULL, causing a crash. The vulnerability is limited to Denial of Service and cannot be escalated to achieve code execution or memory disclosure. Exploiting this issue requires an attacker to provide a malformed PKCS#12 file to an application that processes it. For that reason the issue was assessed as Low severity according to our Security Policy. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the PKCS#12 implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue. (CVE-2025-69421)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-69421

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-69421

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 296772

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_69421.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mokutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-tools-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ovmf, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-unsigned-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-openssl10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aavmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-tools-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aavmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-unsigned-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-static, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-ia32, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-openssl10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-openssl11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-x64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mokutil, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-unsigned-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-ia32, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim-aa64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-openssl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-openssl11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-aa64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:shim, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim-unsigned-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovmf, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:edk2-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:shim, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-aarch64

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-69421