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CVE-2025-40907VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · security update for perl-FCGI

Affects SUSESource GCVE Database

0

Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 07:57 UTC

Severity
High

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

EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 51% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 9 Jun 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: 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 2026-10-26.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
SUSE Product Security Team SUSEAffected
  • >=0.44 <=0.82
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

A security update is available from Red Hat for perl-FCGI version 0.78 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6. Users should apply the official security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:8890 to remediate this vulnerability. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for detailed update instructions. Since this is an on-premises package, remediation requires manual update by system administrators.

Description

A vulnerability exists in the perl-FCGI package versions 0.44 through 0.82 due to a flaw in the embedded FastCGI fcgi2 library (CVE-2025-40907). This affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 variants and is rated as having an important security impact. The perl-FCGI module is used to write FastCGI applications, which improve web application performance by keeping processes persistent across requests. A security update is available to address this issue.

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