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openSUSE 16 Security Update : haproxy (openSUSE-SU-2026:20032-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 287969

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20032-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-11230: issue in the mjson JSON decoder leads to excessive resource consumption when processing numbers with large exponents (bsc#1250983).

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 haproxy package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250983

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11230

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 287969

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20032-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11230

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:haproxy

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: 1/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11230

IAVB: 2025-B-0166