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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2025:4159-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 276528

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-2025:4159-1 advisory.

 Update to Tomcat 9.0.111:

 - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT is enabled (bsc#1252753)
 - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences vulnerability (bsc#1252905)
 - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed denial of service due to temporary copies during the processing of multipart upload (bsc#1252756)

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/1252753

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252756

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252905

http://www.nessus.org/u?163284eb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55752

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55754

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-61795

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 276528

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4159-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2025

Updated: 11/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55754

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 6.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55752

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-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: 11/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55752, CVE-2025-55754, CVE-2025-61795

IAVA: 2025-A-0803

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4159-1