Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-7.5.1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 305057

Synopsis

The Nutanix AOS host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities .

Description

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 7.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-7.5.1 advisory.

- A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function elf_swap_shdr in the library bfd/elfcode.h of the component Linker. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow.
The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 9ca499644a21ceb3f946d1c179c38a83be084490. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch. The code maintainer replied with [f]ixed for 2.46. (CVE-2025-11083)

- Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits enabled a DoS vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload. This issue affects Apache Commons FileUpload: from 1.0 before 1.6; from 2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 1.6 or 2.0.0-M4, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-48976)

- The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture. This behavior was not conformant to RFC 3986 and potentially enabled SSRF if a URL is processed by more than one URL parser. (CVE-2024-11168)

- CPython 3.9 and earlier doesn't disallow configuring an empty list ([]) for SSLContext.set_npn_protocols() which is an invalid value for the underlying OpenSSL API. This results in a buffer over-read when NPN is used (see CVE-2024-5535 for OpenSSL). This vulnerability is of low severity due to NPN being not widely used and specifying an empty list likely being uncommon in-practice (typically a protocol name would be configured). (CVE-2024-5642)

- A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment activation scripts (ie source venv/bin/activate). This means that attacker- controlled virtual environments are able to run commands when the virtual environment is activated.
Virtual environments which are not created by an attacker or which aren't activated before being used (ie ./venv/bin/python) are not affected. (CVE-2024-9287)

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 Nutanix AOS software to the recommended version. Before upgrading: if this cluster is registered with Prism Central, ensure that Prism Central has been upgraded first to a compatible version. Refer to the Software Product Interoperability page on the Nutanix portal.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 305057

File Name: nutanix_NXSA-AOS-7_5_1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Misc.

Published: 4/6/2026

Updated: 4/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68161

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:nutanix:aos

Required KB Items: Host/Nutanix/Data/lts, Host/Nutanix/Data/Service, Host/Nutanix/Data/Version, Host/Nutanix/Data/arch

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11168, CVE-2024-5642, CVE-2024-9287, CVE-2025-0938, CVE-2025-11083, CVE-2025-13601, CVE-2025-40778, CVE-2025-41242, CVE-2025-41249, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4435, CVE-2025-4516, CVE-2025-4517, CVE-2025-48976, CVE-2025-53057, CVE-2025-53066, CVE-2025-58364, CVE-2025-58436, CVE-2025-59375, CVE-2025-6069, CVE-2025-6075, CVE-2025-61748, CVE-2025-61915, CVE-2025-61984, CVE-2025-61985, CVE-2025-64720, CVE-2025-65018, CVE-2025-68161, CVE-2025-68615, CVE-2025-8291, CVE-2025-9086, CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, CVE-2025-9232, CVE-2026-21925, CVE-2026-21933, CVE-2026-21945

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