# RHSA-2025:23481: Security update for 8 packages

RHSA-2025:23481, released December 17, 2025, fixes 2 CVEs across 8 products. None of them is reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/rhsa-2025-23481
- Platform: Linux
- Released: Dec 17, 2025
- Priority: Routine (Closes 2 CVEs, none high severity)
- CVEs: 2, exploited: 0, on CISA KEV: 0
- Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23481

## Applies to

| Product | Release | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| [openssh](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-askpass](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-askpass.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-cavs](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-cavs.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-clients](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-clients.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-keycat](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-keycat.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-ldap](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-ldap.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [openssh-server](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-server.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 |
| [pam_ssh_agent_auth](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/pam-ssh-agent-auth.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:0.10.3-7.27.el8_10 |

## CVEs this fix closes

| CVE | Priority | Title | CVSS | EPSS | Exploitation |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| [CVE-2025-61984](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-61984.md) | Routine | ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows control characters in usernames that originate from certain possibly untrusted sources, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand is used. The untrusted sources are the command line and %-sequence expansion of a configuration file. (A configuration file that provides a complete literal username is not categorized as an untrusted source.) | 5.3 | 0.0046 |  |
| [CVE-2025-61985](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-61985.md) | Routine | ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows the '\0' character in an ssh:// URI, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand is used. | 5.3 | 0.0013 |  |

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Data as of 2026-11-07T12:40:37Z UTC. Source: Patchblox Patch Radar (https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar). Patchblox finds out-of-date software on Windows, macOS and Linux and updates it through release rings: https://patchblox.com/demo