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CVE-2025-24898VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: rpm-ostree security update

Affects Red Hat rpm-ostreeSource 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 rpm-ostree that addresses this vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 variants should apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2025:7147) and the linked update instructions. No additional mitigation steps are indicated or required beyond applying the official patch.

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-24898) was identified in the rust-openssl component used by the rpm-ostree tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. This flaw involves the ssl::select_next_proto function and could potentially lead to memory corruption. Red Hat has issued a security update to address this moderate severity issue in rpm-ostree, which manages RPM packaging combined with OSTree bootable file system trees.

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