SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cloud-init (SUSE-SU-2023:2164-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175592

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2164-1 advisory.

This update for cloud-init contains following fixes:

- CVE-2021-3429: Do not write the generated password to the log file. (bsc#1184758)
- CVE-2023-1786: Do not expose sensitive data gathered from the CSP. (bsc#1210277)

Other fixes:
- Change log file creation mode to 640. (bsc#1183939)
- Write proper bonding option configuration for SLE/openSUSE. (bsc#1184085)
- Do not including sudoers.d directory twice. (bsc#1181283)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cloud-init and / or cloud-init-config-suse packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175592

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2164-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1786

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init-config-suse

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3429, CVE-2023-1786

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2164-1

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