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SUSE SLES16 : Recommended update for cloud-init (SUSE-SU-SUSE-RU-2026:20192-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297842

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-SUSE-RU-2026:20192-1 advisory.

 Changes in cloud-init:

 - Fix dependency replace -serial with -pyserial

 - Drop unneeded test dependency on httpretty, fixed long ago
 * https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1720

 - Update to version 25.1.3 (bsc#1245401 , CVE-2024-6174, bsc#1245403, CVE-2024-11584)

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 cloud-init, cloud-init-config-suse and / or cloud-init-doc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245401

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245403

http://www.nessus.org/u?ada62e0d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11584

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6174

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 297842

File Name: suse_SU-RU-2026-20192-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/4/2026

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11584

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init-config-suse

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: 1/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11584, CVE-2024-6174

SuSE: SUSE-RU-2026:20192-1