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openSUSE 16 Security Update : busybox (openSUSE-SU-2026:20090-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 296556

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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-2026:20090-1 advisory.

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2025-60876: HTTP request header injection in wget (bsc#1253245).
 - CVE-2025-46394: Fixed tar hidden files via escape sequence (bsc#1241661).

 Other fixes:

 - Set CONFIG_FIRST_SYSTEM_ID to 201 to avoid confclict (bsc#1236670)
 - Fix unshare -mrpf sh core dump on ppc64le (bsc#1249237)

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 busybox, busybox-static and / or busybox-warewulf3 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236670

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241661

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249237

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253245

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46394

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-60876

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 296556

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20090-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2026

Updated: 1/26/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46394

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox-warewulf3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46394, CVE-2025-60876