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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kubernetes1.23 (SUSE-SU-2025:02423-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278691

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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-2025:02423-2 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-25743: Escape terminal special characters in kubectl output (bsc#1194400).
 - CVE-2023-2431: Prevent pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement (bsc#1212493).
 - CVE-2024-0793: Advance autoscaling v2 as the preferred API version (bsc#1219964).
 - CVE-2024-3177: Prevent bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin (bsc#1222539).
 - CVE-2025-22872: Properly handle trailing solidus in unquoted attribute value in foreign content (bsc#1241865).

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 kubernetes1.23-client and / or kubernetes1.23-client-common packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212493

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219964

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222539

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229008

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241865

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-August/041192.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25743

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2431

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0793

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3177

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22872

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278691

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02423-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2025

Updated: 12/15/2025

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25743

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2431

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22872

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubernetes1.23-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubernetes1.23-client-common, 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: 8/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25743, CVE-2023-2431, CVE-2024-0793, CVE-2024-3177, CVE-2025-22872

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02423-2