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CVE-2025-24898VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: rust-bootupd security update

Affects Red Hat rust-bootupdSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 18:47 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 provided updated rust-bootupd packages that fix the vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its variants should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7241 and the linked update article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update will remediate the use-after-free vulnerability. No additional mitigation actions are specified or required.

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-24898) was identified in the rust-openssl component used by rust-bootupd, a bootloader updater in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. This vulnerability has been rated as having moderate security impact. Red Hat has released an update to address this issue in rust-bootupd packages for multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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