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RHEL 9 : maven:3.9 (RHSA-2026:38500)

high Nessus Plugin ID 326512

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for maven:3.9.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:38500 advisory.

 Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

 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 maven:3.9 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:38500.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38500

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451409

http://www.nessus.org/u?277929a6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 326512

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-38500.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2026

Updated: 7/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, 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:maven-shared-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-openjdk11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-wagon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-sec-dispatcher, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aopalliance, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-interpolation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-resolver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:httpcomponents-core, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-containers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-codec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:google-guice, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jakarta-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-openjdk21, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-openjdk25, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:guava, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jansi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sisu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jsr-305, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:httpcomponents-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-containers-component-annotations, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atinject, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apache-commons-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:jcl-over-slf4j, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-openjdk17, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-cipher, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:plexus-classworlds, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:maven-openjdk8

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: 7/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67030

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2026:38500