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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2026:0494-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299044

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:0494-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-27534: Regression fix for SFTP path ~ resolving discrepancy (bsc#1219273)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219273

http://www.nessus.org/u?00739531

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-27534

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299044

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0494-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2026

Updated: 2/14/2026

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-14, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-14-32bit

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: 2/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27534

IAVA: 2023-A-0153-S, 2023-A-0531-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0494-1