SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : sccache (SUSE-SU-2023:3526-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180529

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3526-1 advisory.

- Update to version 0.4.2.
- CVE-2021-45710: Fixed a segmentation fault due to data race in tokio crate. (bsc#1194119)
- CVE-2022-24713: Fixed a ReDoS issue due to vulnerable regex crate. (bsc#1196972)
- CVE-2022-31394: Fixed a DoS issue due to the max header list size not settable. (bsc#1208553)
- CVE-2023-1521: Fixed a local privilege escalation. (bsc#1212407)

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 sccache package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180529

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3526-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/6/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45710

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 7.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1521

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sccache, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45710, CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-31394, CVE-2023-1521

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3526-1

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