SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cosign (SUSE-SU-2025:02592-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243299

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02592-1 advisory.

Update to version 2.5.3 (jsc#SLE-23879):

- CVE-2025-46569: Fixed OPA server Data API HTTP path injection of Rego (bsc#1246725)

Changelog:

Update to 2.5.3:

- Add signing-config create command (#4280)
- Allow multiple services to be specified for trusted-root create (#4285)
- force when copying the latest image to overwrite (#4298)
- Fix cert verification logic for trusted-root/SCTs (#4294)
- Fix lint error for types package (#4295)
- feat: Add OCI 1.1+ experimental support to tree (#4205)
- Add validity period end for trusted-root create (#4271)
- avoid double-loading trustedroot from file (#4264)

Update to 2.5.2:

- Do not load trusted root when CT env key is set
- docs: improve doc for --no-upload option (#4206)

Update to 2.5.1:

- Add Rekor v2 support for trusted-root create (#4242)
- Add baseUrl and Uri to trusted-root create command
- Upgrade to TUF v2 client with trusted root
- Don't verify SCT for a private PKI cert (#4225)
- Bump TSA library to relax EKU chain validation rules (#4219)
- Bump sigstore-go to pick up log index=0 fix (#4162)
- remove unused recursive flag on attest command (#4187)

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 cosign, cosign-bash-completion and / or cosign-zsh-completion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246725

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-August/041004.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46569

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243299

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02592-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/2/2025

Updated: 8/2/2025

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: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46569

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cosign-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cosign-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cosign, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 8/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46569

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02592-1