SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat10 (SUSE-SU-2025:1537-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235925

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1537-1 advisory.

Update to Tomcat 10.1.40

- CVE-2025-31650: invalid priority field values should be ignored (bsc#1242008)
- CVE-2025-31651: Better handling of URLs with literal ';' and '?' (bsc#1242009)

Full changelog:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/changelog.html

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235925

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1537-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31650

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-el-5_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-servlet-6_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-jsp-3_1-api, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-lib

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: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31650, CVE-2025-31651

IAVA: 2025-A-0313

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1537-1

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