SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2026:0268-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 296461

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0268-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-13836: Fixed reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, with using Content-Length per default as the length (bsc#1254400)
- CVE-2025-12084: Fixed Denial of Service due to quadratic algorithm in xml.dom.minidom (bsc#1254997).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 296461

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0268-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2026

Updated: 2/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13836

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml

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: 1/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12084, CVE-2025-13836, CVE-2025-6075

IAVA: 2025-A-0444

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0268-1

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