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RHEL 8 : Bug fix of NetworkManager (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:0288)

low Nessus Plugin ID 214070

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0288 advisory.

 Security and Bug Fix(es):

 * NetworkManager: DHCP routing options can manipulate interface-based VPN traffic (CVE-2024-3661)

 * Route to VPN server not stored in routing table that is specified by ipv4.route-table (JIRA:RHEL-73051)

 * VPN connections do not support ipv4.routing-rules settings (JIRA:RHEL-73052)

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 affected packages.

See Also

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0288

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-73052

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f243716

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 214070

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0288.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2025

Updated: 1/14/2025

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: 5.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3661

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-adsl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-bluetooth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-config-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-libnm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-libnm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-team, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-tui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-wifi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-wwan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-dispatcher-routing-rules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-cloud-setup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-config-connectivity-redhat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-ppp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:networkmanager-initscripts-updown, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3661

CWE: 501

RHSA: 2025:0288