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CVE-2025-24898VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: bootc security update

Affects Red Hat bootcSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 18:48 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 May 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released an official security update for bootc that addresses this vulnerability. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7160 and the linked article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update will remediate the use-after-free vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-24898) was identified in the rust-openssl component of the bootable container system (bootc) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. This flaw affects the ssl::select_next_proto function. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this moderate severity issue. The update is available for multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Users are advised to apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory.

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