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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2025:4520-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279909

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:4520-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-13699: Fixed Directory Traversal and Remote Code Execution (bsc#1254313)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected mariadb, mariadb-client, mariadb-errormessages and / or mariadb-tools packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254313

http://www.nessus.org/u?0c0dc7b3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13699

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 279909

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4520-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/25/2025

Updated: 12/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13699

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-errormessages, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb

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: 12/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13699

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4520-1