SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python312 (SUSE-SU-2025:02359-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 242374

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02359-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-6069: Avoid worst case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs with HTMLParser (bsc#1244705).
- CVE-2025-4435: Fixed that Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (bsc#1244061)

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: 242374

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02359-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/19/2025

Updated: 9/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4435

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_12-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312

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: 7/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4435, CVE-2025-6069

IAVA: 2025-A-0444

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02359-1

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