SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2025:1436-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 235091

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 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1436-1 advisory.

- Firefox Extended Support Release 128.10.0 ESR MFSA 2025-29 (bsc#1241621):
* CVE-2025-2817: Potential privilege escalation in Firefox Updater
* CVE-2025-4082: WebGL shader attribute memory corruption in Firefox for macOS
* CVE-2025-4083: Process isolation bypass using `javascript:` URI links in cross-origin frames
* CVE-2025-4084: Potential local code execution in 'copy as cURL' command
* CVE-2025-4087: Unsafe attribute access during XPath parsing
* CVE-2025-4091: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Firefox ESR 128.10, and Thunderbird 128.10
* CVE-2025-4093: Memory safety bug fixed in Firefox ESR 128.10 and Thunderbird 128.10

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241621

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2817

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039135.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4082

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4083

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4084

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4087

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4091

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4093

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 235091

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1436-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2025

Updated: 5/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4093

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4083

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillafirefox-translations-other

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: 5/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2817, CVE-2025-4082, CVE-2025-4083, CVE-2025-4084, CVE-2025-4087, CVE-2025-4091, CVE-2025-4093

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1436-1