RHEL 10 : kea (RHSA-2025:9178)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240099

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kea.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9178 advisory.

DHCP implementation from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. that features fully functional DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and Dynamic DNS servers. Both DHCP servers fully support server discovery, address assignment, renewal, rebinding and release. The DHCPv6 server supports prefix delegation. Both servers support DNS Update mechanism, using stand-alone DDNS daemon.

Security Fix(es):

* kea: Loading a malicious hook library can lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2025-32801)

* kea: Insecure handling of file paths allows multiple local attacks (CVE-2025-32802)

* kea: Insecure file permissions can result in confidential information leakage (CVE-2025-32803)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL kea package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:9178.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240099

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9178.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/17/2025

Updated: 6/17/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kea-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kea-hooks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kea-keama, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kea-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kea

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: 6/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32801, CVE-2025-32802, CVE-2025-32803

CWE: 250, 267, 538

RHSA: 2025:9178

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