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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS : CivetWeb vulnerabilities (USN-8749-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 345734

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS / Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8749-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain URIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-55763)

 It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-9648)

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 civetweb and / or libcivetweb1 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8749-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 345734

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8749-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2026

Updated: 9/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55763

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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-2025-9648

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pro:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:civetweb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcivetweb1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55763, CVE-2025-9648

USN: 8749-1