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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2024:0603-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190945

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0603-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-51385: Fixed command injection via user name or host name metacharacters (bsc#1218215).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected openssh, openssh-askpass-gnome, openssh-fips and / or openssh-helpers packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218215

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-51385

http://www.nessus.org/u?983c9599

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190945

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0603-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-51385

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-helpers, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-askpass-gnome, 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: 2/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-51385

IAVA: 2023-A-0701-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0603-1