SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : Multi-Linux Manager Client Tools (SUSE-SU-2025:01989-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240840

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01989-1 advisory.

golang-github-prometheus-prometheus was updated to version 2.53.4:

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

- Other bugs fixes from version 2.53.4:
* Runtime: fixed GOGC being set to 0 when installed with empty prometheus.yml file resulting high cpu usage
* Scrape: fixed dropping valid metrics after previous scrape failed

prometheus-blackbox_exporter was updated from version 0.24.0 to 0.26.0 (jsc#PED-12872):

- Security issues fixed:
* CVE-2025-22870: Fixed proxy bypassing using IPv6 zone IDs (bsc#1238680)
* CVE-2023-45288: Fixed closing connections when receiving too many headers (bsc#1236515)

- Other changes from version 0.26.0:
* Changes:
- Replace go-kit/log with log/slog module.
* Features:
- Add metric to record tls ciphersuite negotiated during handshake.
- Add a way to export labels with content matched by the probe.
Reports Certificate Serial number.
* Enhancement:
- Add stale workflow to start sync with stale.yaml in Prometheus.
* Bug fixes:
- Only register grpc TLS metrics on successful handshake.

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 prometheus-blackbox_exporter package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 240840

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01989-1.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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Threat Score: 8.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:prometheus-blackbox_exporter, 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-2024-9264, CVE-2024-9476, CVE-2025-22870, CVE-2025-22872, CVE-2025-2703, CVE-2025-29923, CVE-2025-3454

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01989-1

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