SB2025020670 - Fedora 42 update for nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts
Published: February 6, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23419)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to an TLS session resumption when handling client certificate authentication. A remote attacker can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that name-based virtual hosts are configured to share the same IP address and port combination and have TLS 1.3 and OpenSSL. This vulnerability arises when TLS session tickets are used and/or the SSL session cache is used in the default virtual server and the default virtual server is performing client certificate authentication.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.