openSUSE 16 Security Update : java-21-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2025-20123-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277045

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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-2025-20123-1 advisory.

Update to upstream tag jdk-21.0.9+10 (October 2025 CPU):

- CVE-2025-53066: Fixed enhance path factories (bsc#1252417).
- CVE-2025-61748: Fixed enhance string handling (bsc#1252418).
- CVE-2025-53057: Fixed enhance certificate handling (bsc#1252414).

Other bug fixes:

- Do not embed rebuild counter (bsc#1246806)

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/1246806

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252414

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252417

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252418

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-53057

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-53066

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-61748

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277045

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20123-1.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: 4.4

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-2025-53066

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:java-21-openjdk-jmods

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: 11/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53057, CVE-2025-53066, CVE-2025-61748