RHSA-2025:9178HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kea security update

Published
June 17, 2025
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2025-32801 →CVE-2025-32802 →CVE-2025-32803 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-32801 — kea: Loading a malicious hook library can lead to local privilege escalation CVE-2025-32802 — kea: Insecure handling of file paths allows multiple local attacks CVE-2025-32803 — kea: Insecure file permissions can result in confidential information leakage

🎯 Affected products81

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debuginfo-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • kea-debugsource-0:2.6.3-1.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: This vulnerability can be mitigated via one of the two following alternatives: 1) Disable the Kea API entirely by disabling the kea-ctrl-agent and removing any control-socket stanzas from the Kea configuration files. 2) Configure the API to require authentication for the kea-ctrl-agent and configuring all "control-socket" stanzes to use a directory restricted to trusted users. Workaround: This issue can be mitigated by ensuring the directories which contain the log files and lease information can be only accessed by trusted or privileged users.

🔗 References (6)