The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9553 advisory.

    WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

    Security Fix(es):

    * webkitgtk: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing (CVE-2024-40866)

    * webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2024-44187)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process     crash (CVE-2024-44185)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process     crash (CVE-2024-44244)

    * webkit: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2024-54534)

    * webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution     (CVE-2024-27856)

    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.

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RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2024:9553)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 232750

Version 1.3

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Apr 5, 2025, 10:47 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2024-27856,CVE-2024-40866,CVE-2024-44185,CVE-2024-44187,CVE-2024-44244,CVE-2024-54534") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202504052247
Version 1.1 Mar 15, 2025, 2:36 AM New Plugin Feed: 202503150236