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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : AIOHTTP vulnerabilities (USN-8032-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299345

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8032-1 advisory.

 Charles Chan discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled the decompression of compressed requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-69223)

 Thomas Rinsma discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled non-ASCII characters in HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a request smuggling attack to bypass certain proxy protections. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10.
 (CVE-2025-69224)

 Thomas Rinsma discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled non-ASCII characters in the Range header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a request smuggling attack. (CVE-2025-69225)

 Thomas Rinsma discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled path normalization when serving static files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2025-69226)

 Thomas Rinsma discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled certain POST request bodies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-69227)

 Thomas Rinsma discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled large POST request payloads. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-69228)

 It was discovered that AIOHTTP incorrectly handled chunked messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-69229)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 python3-aiohttp package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8032-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299345

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8032-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2026

Updated: 2/18/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69229

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-aiohttp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-69223, CVE-2025-69224, CVE-2025-69225, CVE-2025-69226, CVE-2025-69227, CVE-2025-69228, CVE-2025-69229

USN: 8032-1