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openSUSE 16 Security Update : rnp (openSUSE-SU-2025-20116-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277006

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20116-1 advisory.

 - update to 0.18.1:
 * CVE-2025-13470: PKESK (public-key encrypted) session keys were generated as all-zero, allowing trivial decryption of messages encrypted with public keys only (boo#1253957, CVE-2025-13402)

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 librnp0, rnp and / or rnp-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253957

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13402

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13470

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277006

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20116-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2025

Updated: 12/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13470

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rnp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:librnp0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rnp

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: 11/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13402, CVE-2025-13470