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openSUSE 16 Security Update : golang-github-prometheus-prometheus (openSUSE-SU-2026:20177-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 298293

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20177-1 advisory.

 Update to version 3.5.0:

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2025-13465: prototype pollution in the _.unset and _.omit functions can lead to deletion of methods from global (bsc#1257329).
 - CVE-2025-12816: interpretation conflict vulnerability allowing bypassing cryptographic verifications (bsc#1255588).

 Other updates and bugfixes:

 - Update to 3.5.0 (jsc#PED-13824):

 * [FEATURE] Remote-write: Add support for Azure Workload Identity as an authentication method for the receiver.
 * [FEATURE] PromQL: Add first_over_time(...) and ts_of_first_over_time(...) behind feature flag.
 * [FEATURE] Federation: Add support for native histograms with custom buckets (NHCB).
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Add warn-level annotations for counter reset conflicts in certain histogram operations.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] UI: Add scrape interval and scrape timeout to targets page.

 - Update to 3.4.0:

 * Add unified AWS service discovery for ec2, lightsail and ecs services.
 * [FEATURE] Native histograms are now a stable, but optional feature.
 * [FEATURE] UI: Show detailed relabeling steps for each discovered target.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Alerting: Add unknown state for alerting rules that haven't been evaluated yet.
 * [BUGFIX] Scrape: Fix a bug where scrape cache would not be cleared on startup.

 - Update to 3.3.0:

 * [FEATURE] Spring Boot 3.3 includes support for the Prometheus Client 1.x.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Dependency management for Dropwizard Metrics has been removed.

 - Update to 3.2.0:

 * [FEATURE] OAuth2: support jwt-bearer grant-type (RFC7523 3.1).
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Reconcile mismatched NHCB bounds in Add and Sub.
 * [BUGFIX] TSDB: Native Histogram Custom Bounds with a NaN threshold are now rejected.

 - Update to 3.1.0:

 * [FEATURE] Remote-write 2 (receiving): Update to 2.0-rc.4 spec.
 created timestamp (CT) is now called start timestamp (ST).
 * [BUGFIX] Mixin: Add static UID to the remote-write dashboard.

 - Update to 3.0.1:

 * [BUGFIX] Promql: Make subqueries left open.
 * [BUGFIX] Fix memory leak when query log is enabled.
 * [BUGFIX] Support utf8 names on /v1/label/:name/values endpoint.

 - Update to 3.0.0:

 * [CHANGE] Deprecated feature flags removed.
 * [FEATURE] New UI.
 * [FEATURE] Remote Write 2.0.
 * [FEATURE] OpenTelemetry Support.
 * [FEATURE] UTF-8 support is now stable and enabled by default.
 * [FEATURE] OTLP Ingestion.
 * [FEATURE] Native Histograms.
 * [BUGFIX] PromQL: Fix count_values for histograms.
 * [BUGFIX] TSDB: Fix race on stale values in headAppender.
 * [BUGFIX] UI: Fix selector / series formatting for empty metric names.

 - Update to 2.55.0:

 * [FEATURE] PromQL: Add `last_over_time` function.
 * [FEATURE] Agent: Add `prometheus_agent_build_info` metric.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Optimise `group()` and `group by()`.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] TSDB: Reduce memory usage when loading blocks.
 * [BUGFIX] Scrape: Fix a bug where a target could be scraped multiple times.

 - Update to 2.54.0:

 * [CHANGE] Remote-Write: highest_timestamp_in_seconds and queue_highest_sent_timestamp_seconds metrics now initialized to 0.
 * [CHANGE] API: Split warnings from info annotations in API response.
 * [FEATURE] Remote-Write: Version 2.0 experimental, plus metadata in WAL via feature flag.
 * [FEATURE] PromQL: add limitk() and limit_ratio() aggregation operators.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: Accept underscores in literal numbers.
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL: float literal numbers and durations are now interchangeable (experimental).
 * [ENHANCEMENT] PromQL (experimental native histograms): Optimize histogram_count and histogram_sum functions.
 * [BUGFIX] PromQL: Fix various issues with native histograms.
 * [BUGFIX] TSDB: Fix race on stale values in headAppender.
 * [BUGFIX] OTLP receiver: Allow colons in non-standard units.

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 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255588

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257329

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12816

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13465

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 298293

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20177-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2026

Updated: 2/7/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-12816

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Threat Score: 6.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0

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: 2/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12816, CVE-2025-13465