SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : golang-github-prometheus-prometheus (SUSE-SU-2025:01990-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240760

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01990-1 advisory.

- Security issues fixed:
* CVE-2023-45288: Require Go >= 1.23 for building (bsc#1236516)
* CVE-2025-22870: Bump golang.org/x/net to version 0.39.0 (bsc#1238686)

- Version was updated to 2.53.4 with the following bug fixes:
* Runtime: fix GOGC is being set to 0 when installed with empty prometheus.yml file resulting high cpu usage
* Scrape: fix dropping valid metrics after previous scrape failed

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 firewalld-prometheus-config and / or golang-github-prometheus-prometheus packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240760

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01990-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45288

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22870

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, 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: 6/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45288, CVE-2025-22870

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01990-1

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