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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-59472

🗓️ 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Linux hosts running Next.js Minimal Mode risk crash from unauthenticated POSTs and zipbomb; upgrade.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
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  script_id(297048);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/02/25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-59472");

  script_name(english:"Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-59472");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be
patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - A denial of service vulnerability exists in Next.js versions with Partial Prerendering (PPR) enabled when
    running in minimal mode. The PPR resume endpoint accepts unauthenticated POST requests with the `Next-
    Resume: 1` header and processes attacker-controlled postponed state data. Two closely related
    vulnerabilities allow an attacker to crash the server process through memory exhaustion: 1. **Unbounded
    request body buffering**: The server buffers the entire POST request body into memory using
    `Buffer.concat()` without enforcing any size limit, allowing arbitrarily large payloads to exhaust
    available memory. 2. **Unbounded decompression (zipbomb)**: The resume data cache is decompressed using
    `inflateSync()` without limiting the decompressed output size. A small compressed payload can expand to
    hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes, causing memory exhaustion. Both attack vectors result in a fatal V8
    out-of-memory error (`FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory`)
    causing the Node.js process to terminate. The zipbomb variant is particularly dangerous as it can bypass
    reverse proxy request size limits while still causing large memory allocation on the server. To be
    affected you must have an application running with `experimental.ppr: true` or `cacheComponents: true`
    configured along with the NEXT_PRIVATE_MINIMAL_MODE=1 environment variable. Strongly consider upgrading to
    15.6.0-canary.61 or 16.1.5 to reduce risk and prevent availability issues in Next applications.
    (CVE-2025-59472)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"There is no known solution at this time.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:U/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-59472");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2026/01/26");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox-x11");
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  script_family(english:"Misc.");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl", "set_linux_os_id.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/local_checks_enabled", "global_settings/vendor_unpatched", "Host/OS/identifier");
  script_require_ports("Host/OS/CentOS Linux-7", "Host/OS/CentOS Linux-8", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-9");

  exit(0);
}

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "CentOS Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "8",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "firefox"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "10",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "firefox"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "8",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "firefox"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "firefox"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "firefox"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-9": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "9",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "aspnetcore-runtime-7.0"},
          {"reference": "aspnetcore-targeting-pack-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-host"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-hostfxr-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-runtime-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-sdk-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-artifacts"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet-templates-7.0"},
          {"reference": "dotnet7.0"},
          {"reference": "firefox"},
          {"reference": "firefox-x11"},
          {"reference": "netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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25 Feb 2026 00:00Current
5.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.6
CVSS 3.15.9 - 7.5
EPSS0.0015
SSVC
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