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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-59472

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297048

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.

 - A denial of service vulnerability exists in Next.js versions with Partial Prerendering (PPR) enabled when running in minimal mode. The PPR resume endpoint accepts unauthenticated POST requests with the `Next- Resume: 1` header and processes attacker-controlled postponed state data. Two closely related vulnerabilities allow an attacker to crash the server process through memory exhaustion: 1. **Unbounded request body buffering**: The server buffers the entire POST request body into memory using `Buffer.concat()` without enforcing any size limit, allowing arbitrarily large payloads to exhaust available memory. 2. **Unbounded decompression (zipbomb)**: The resume data cache is decompressed using `inflateSync()` without limiting the decompressed output size. A small compressed payload can expand to hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes, causing memory exhaustion. Both attack vectors result in a fatal V8 out-of-memory error (`FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory`) causing the Node.js process to terminate. The zipbomb variant is particularly dangerous as it can bypass reverse proxy request size limits while still causing large memory allocation on the server. To be affected you must have an application running with `experimental.ppr: true` or `cacheComponents: true` configured along with the NEXT_PRIVATE_MINIMAL_MODE=1 environment variable. Strongly consider upgrading to 15.6.0-canary.61 or 16.1.5 to reduce risk and prevent availability issues in Next applications.
 (CVE-2025-59472)

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-2025-59472

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 297048

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_59472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 1/28/2026

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: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-host, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-hostfxr-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-artifacts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet-templates-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-x11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aspnetcore-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:aspnetcore-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-hostfxr-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-runtime-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-artifacts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet-templates-7.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dotnet7.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox-x11, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dotnet7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59472