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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat11 (SUSE-SU-2025:02979-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 255216

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02979-1 advisory.

 Updated to Tomcat 11.0.9
 - CVE-2025-52520: Fixed integer overflow can lead to DoS for some unlikely configurations of multipart upload (bsc#1246388)
 - CVE-2025-53506: Fixed uncontrolled resource HTTP/2 client consumption vulnerability (bsc#1246318)

 Other:
 - Correct a regression in the fix for CVE-2025-49125 that prevented access to PreResources and PostResources when mounted below the web application root with a path that was terminated with a file separator.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246318

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246388

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-August/041357.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49125

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52520

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-53506

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 255216

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02979-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2025

Updated: 8/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49125

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.9

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53506

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-jsp-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-el-6_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-servlet-6_1-api, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat11-webapps

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: 8/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-49125, CVE-2025-52520, CVE-2025-53506

IAVA: 2025-A-0437-S, 2025-A-0478-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02979-1