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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2025:01921-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240843

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:01921-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-10524: Dropped support for shorthand URLs that enabled SSRF attacks (bsc#1233773).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected wget package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233773

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040246.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10524

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240843

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01921-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10524

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget

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: 6/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10524

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01921-1