RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2025:3713)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234104

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3713 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44192)

* webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2024-54467)

* webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service (CVE-2024-54551)

* webkitgtk: Loading a malicious iframe may lead to a cross-site scripting attack (CVE-2025-24208)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-24209)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (CVE-2025-24216)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (CVE-2025-30427)

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 webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:3713.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234104

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3713.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2025

Updated: 4/9/2025

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-54467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel

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: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44192, CVE-2024-54467, CVE-2024-54551, CVE-2025-24208, CVE-2025-24209, CVE-2025-24216, CVE-2025-30427

CWE: 119, 120, 20, 200, 416, 79

RHSA: 2025:3713

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