RHEL 10 : plexus-utils (RHSA-2026:35991)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325251

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for plexus-utils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:35991 advisory.

The Plexus project seeks to create end-to-end developer tools for writing applications. At the core is the container, which can be embedded or for a full scale application server. There are many reusable components for hibernate, form processing, jndi, i18n, velocity, etc. Plexus also includes an application server which is like a J2EE application server, without all the baggage.

Security Fix(es):

* org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils: Plexus-utils: Directory Traversal in extractFile method (CVE-2025-67030)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL plexus-utils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:35991.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325251

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-35991.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-67030

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-utils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-utils-javadoc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67030

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2026:35991

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