RHSA-2025:23738 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mod_md is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

This module manages common properties of domains for one or more virtual hosts. Specifically it can use the ACME protocol to automate certificate provisioning. Certificates will be configured for managed domains and their virtual hosts automatically, including at renewal.

Security Fix(es):

• mod_md: Apache HTTP Server: mod_md (ACME), unintended retry intervals (CVE-2025-55753)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2419140 - CVE-2025-55753 mod_md: Apache HTTP Server: mod_md (ACME), unintended retry intervals

CVEs

• CVE-2025-55753

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important