Red Hat Security Advisory: kea security update
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for the kea DHCP implementation addressing three vulnerabilities: a local privilege escalation via loading a malicious hook library (CVE-2025-32801), insecure file path handling allowing local attacks (CVE-2025-32802), and insecure file permissions leading to confidential information leakage (CVE-2025-32803). These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants. A security update is available to remediate these vulnerabilities.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The kea DHCP server from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products, contains multiple security vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-32801 involves loading a malicious hook library that can lead to local privilege escalation. CVE-2025-32802 concerns insecure handling of file paths that permits various local attacks. CVE-2025-32803 relates to insecure file permissions that may result in confidential information leakage. Red Hat has released an important security update (RHSA-2025:9178) addressing these issues. The update is applicable to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and its Extended Update Support and Extended Life Cycle variants across multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges, perform multiple local attacks due to insecure file path handling, and potentially access confidential information due to insecure file permissions. These impacts could compromise system integrity and confidentiality on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 systems running kea DHCP.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update for kea in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:9178 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these vulnerabilities. Since a patch is available, applying this update is the recommended mitigation.
Red Hat Security Advisory: kea security update
Description
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for the kea DHCP implementation addressing three vulnerabilities: a local privilege escalation via loading a malicious hook library (CVE-2025-32801), insecure file path handling allowing local attacks (CVE-2025-32802), and insecure file permissions leading to confidential information leakage (CVE-2025-32803). These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants. A security update is available to remediate these vulnerabilities.
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Technical Analysis
The kea DHCP server from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products, contains multiple security vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-32801 involves loading a malicious hook library that can lead to local privilege escalation. CVE-2025-32802 concerns insecure handling of file paths that permits various local attacks. CVE-2025-32803 relates to insecure file permissions that may result in confidential information leakage. Red Hat has released an important security update (RHSA-2025:9178) addressing these issues. The update is applicable to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and its Extended Update Support and Extended Life Cycle variants across multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges, perform multiple local attacks due to insecure file path handling, and potentially access confidential information due to insecure file permissions. These impacts could compromise system integrity and confidentiality on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 systems running kea DHCP.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update for kea in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:9178 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate these vulnerabilities. Since a patch is available, applying this update is the recommended mitigation.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:9178
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-32802","CVE-2025-32803"]
Threat ID: 6a3da1ce4853345fc1823e59
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:46:54 UTC
Last enriched: 08/07/2026, 00:43:19 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:50 UTC
Views: 50
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