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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs20 (SUSE-SU-2025:02039-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240594

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02039-1 advisory.

 Update to 20.19.2:

 - CVE-2025-23166: improper error handling in async cryptographic operations crashes process (bsc#1243218).
 - CVE-2025-23167: improper HTTP header block termination in llhttp (bsc#1243220).
 - CVE-2025-23165: add missing call to uv_fs_req_cleanup (bsc#1243217).

 Other bugfixes:

 - Build with PIE (bsc#1239949)

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 nodejs20, nodejs20-devel, nodejs20-docs and / or npm20 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239949

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243217

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243218

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243220

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040407.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23165

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23166

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23167

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240594

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02039-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs20-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs20-docs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs20

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: 6/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23165, CVE-2025-23166, CVE-2025-23167

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02039-1