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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2025:02739-2)

low Nessus Plugin ID 260432

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02739-2 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-6442: Fixed read_header HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability in WEBrick (bsc#1245254)
 - CVE-2025-27221: Fixed userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (bsc#1237805)

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/1237805

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245254

http://www.nessus.org/u?366f191d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27221

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6442

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 260432

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02739-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2025

Updated: 9/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Threat Score: 0.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27221

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libruby2_5-2_5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5, 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: 9/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27221, CVE-2025-6442

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02739-2