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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-47911

medium Nessus Plugin ID 298274

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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.

 - The html.Parse function in golang.org/x/net/html has quadratic parsing complexity when processing certain inputs, which can lead to denial of service (DoS) if an attacker provides specially crafted HTML content.
 (CVE-2025-47911)

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-2025-47911

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-47911

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-47911

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 298274

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_47911.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 2/6/2026

Updated: 2/19/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2025-47911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-golang-x-net-dev, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-manpages, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-golang-x-net, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-remote, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-manpages, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvisor-tap-vsock-gvforwarder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:image-builder, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-dnf-json, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:image-builder, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:juju-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:podman-tests, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lxd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opentelemetry-collector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gvisor-tap-vsock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-golang-x-net, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvisor-tap-vsock-gvforwarder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opentelemetry-collector, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gvisor-tap-vsock, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:osbuild-composer-core

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: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47911