Inefficient regular expression complexity in puppet-agent (Red Hat package) - CVE-2025-10990

Vulnerability identifier: #VU116922

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-10990

CWE-ID: CWE-1333

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU99358 (CVE-2024-49761). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

puppet-agent (Red Hat package)
cjson (Red Hat package)
rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible (Red Hat package)
foreman-installer (Red Hat package)
foreman (Red Hat package)
python-django (Red Hat package)
rubygem-katello (Red Hat package)
satellite (Red Hat package)
rubygem-kafo (Red Hat package)
rubygem-foreman_bootdisk (Red Hat package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Satellite

Install updates from vendor's website.

puppet-agent (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 7.34.0-4.el9sat, 7.34.0-4.el8sat, 8.8.1-3.el8sat, 8.8.1-3.el9sat
cjson (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.18-2.el8sat, 1.7.18-2.el9sat
rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.5.6.1-1.el8sat, 3.5.6.1-1.el9sat
foreman-installer (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.12.0.6-1.el8sat, 3.12.0.6-1.el9sat, 3.14.0.7-1.el9sat
foreman (Red Hat package) - update to 3.14.0.8-1.el9sat
python-django (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.2.24-0.1.el8pc, 4.2.24-0.1.el9pc
rubygem-katello (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.14.0.14-1.el8sat, 4.14.0.14-1.el9sat
Red Hat Satellite - addressed in versions 6.15.5.5, 6.16.5.4, 6.17.5
satellite (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 6.15.5.5-1.el8sat, 6.16.5.4-1.el8sat, 6.16.5.4-1.el9sat, 6.17.5-1.el9sat
rubygem-kafo (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 7.4.0.1-1.el8sat, 7.4.0.1-1.el9sat
rubygem-foreman_bootdisk (Red Hat package) - update to 22.0.4-1.el9sat

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Satellite 6.17
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Satellite 6.16
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Satellite 6.15