SUSE SLES15 Security Update : cargo-auditable (SUSE-SU-2026:0514-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299047

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0514-1 advisory.

Update to version 0.7.2~0.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2026-25727: parsing of user-provided input by the RFC 2822 date parser can lead to stack exhaustion (bsc#1257906).

Other updates and bugfixes:

- Update to version 0.7.2~0:

* mention cargo-dist in README
* commit Cargo.lock
* bump which dev-dependency to 8.0.0
* bump object to 0.37
* Upgrade cargo_metadata to 0.23
* Expand the set of dist platforms in config

- Update to version 0.7.1~0:

* Out out of unhelpful clippy lint
* Satisfy clippy
* Do not assume --crate-name and --out-dir are present in the rustc command, but show warnings if they aren't
* Run apt-get update before trying to install packages
* run `cargo dist init` on dist 0.30
* Drop allow-dirty from dist config, should no longer be needed
* Reorder paragraphs in README
* Note the maintenance transition for the go extraction library
* Editing pass on the adopters: scanners
* clarify Docker support
* Cargo clippy fix
* Add Wolfi OS and Chainguard to adopters
* Update mentions around Anchore tooling
* README and documentation updates for nightly
* Bump dependency version in rust-audit-info
* More work on docs
* Nicer formatting on format revision documentation
* Bump versions
* regenerate JSON schema
* cargo fmt
* Document format field
* Make it more clear that RawVersionInfo is private
* Add format field to the serialized data
* cargo clippy fix
* Add special handling for proc macros to treat them as the build dependencies they are
* Add a test to ensure proc macros are reported as build dependencies
* Add a test fixture for a crate with a proc macro dependency
* parse fully qualified package ID specs from SBOMs
* select first discovered SBOM file
* cargo sbom integration
* Get rid of unmaintained wee_alloc in test code to make people's scanners misled by GHSA chill out
* Don't fail plan workflow due to manually changed release.yml
* Bump Ubuntu version to hopefully fix release.yml workflow
* Add test for stripped binary
* Bump version to 0.6.7
* Populate changelog
* README.md: add auditable2cdx, more consistency in text
* Placate clippy
* Do not emit -Wl if a bare linker is in use
* Get rid of a compiler warning
* Add bare linker detection function
* drop boilerplate from test that's no longer relevant
* Add support for recovering rustc codegen options
* More lenient parsing of rustc arguments
* More descriptive error message in case rustc is killed abruptly
* change formatting to fit rustfmt
* More descriptive error message in case cargo is killed
* Update REPLACING_CARGO.md to fix #195
* Clarify osv-scanner support in README
* Include the command required to view metadata
* Mention wasm-tools support
* Switch from broken generic cache action to a Rust-specific one
* Fill in various fields in auditable2cdx Cargo.toml
* Include osv-scanner in the list, with a caveat
* Add link to blint repo to README
* Mention that blint supports our data
* Consolidate target definitions
* Account for WASM test dependencies changing, commit the Cargo.lock so they would stop doing that
* Migrate to a maintained toolchain action
* Fix author specification
* Add link to repository to resolverver Cargo.toml
* Bump resolverver to 0.1.0
* Add resolverver crate to the tree

- Update to version 0.6.6~0:

* Note the `object` upgrade in the changelog
* Upgrade cyclonedx-bom from 0.5 to 0.8 in auditable-cyclonedx
* Upgrade object crate from 0.30 to 0.36 to reduce dependency footprint
* Update dependencies in the lock file
* Populate changelog
* apply clippy lint
* add another --emit parsing test
* shorter code with cargo fmt
* Actually fix cargo-c compatibility
* Attempt to fix cargo-capi incompatibility
* Refactoring in preparation for fixes
* Also read the --emit flag to rustc
* Fill in changelogs
* Bump versions
* Drop cfg'd out tests
* Drop obsolete doc line
* Move dependency cycle tests from auditable-serde to cargo-auditable crate
* Remove cargo_metadata from auditable-serde API surface.
* Apply clippy lint
* Upgrade miniz_oxide to 0.8.0
* Insulate our semver from miniz_oxide semver
* Add support for Rust 2024 edition
* Update tests
* More robust OS detection for riscv feature detection
* bump version
* update changelog for auditable-extract 0.3.5
* Fix wasm component auditable data extraction
* Update blocker description in README.md
* Add openSUSE to adopters
* Update list of know adopters
* Fix detection of `riscv64-linux-android` target features
* Silence noisy lint
* Bump version requirement in rust-audit-info
* Fill in changelogs
* Bump semver of auditable-info
* Drop obsolete comment now that wasm is enabled by default
* Remove dependency on cargo-lock
* Brag about adoption in the README
* Don't use LTO for cargo-dist builds to make them consistent with `cargo install` etc
* Also build musl binaries
* dist: update dist config for future releases
* dist(cargo-auditable): ignore auditable2cdx for now
* chore: add cargo-dist

- Update to version 0.6.4~0:

* Release cargo-auditable v0.6.4
* Correctly attribute changelog file addition in changelog
* Add changelog for auditable-extract
* Verify various feature combinations in CI
* Upgrade wasmparser to remove dependencies with `unsafe`
* Add LoongArch support
* cargo fmt
* Move doc headers to README.md and point rustdoc to them, so that we have nice crates.io pages
* Expand on the note about WebAssembly parsing
* Populate changelogs
* Resume bragging about all dependencies being safe, now that there is a caveat below
* drop fuzz Cargo.lock to always fuzz against latest versions
* Bump `cargo auditable` version
* Mention WASM support in README
* Revert 'Be super duper extra sure both MinGW and MSVC are tested on CI'
* Be super duper extra sure both MinGW and MSVC are tested on CI
* Add wasm32 targets to CI for more platforms
* Don't pass --target twice in tests
* Install WASM toolchain in CI
* cargo fmt
* Add WASM end-to-end test
* cargo fmt
* Update documentation to mention the WASM feature
* cargo fmt
* Plumb WASM parsing feature through the whole stack
* Make WASM parsing an optional, non-default feature
* Add a fuzzing harness for WASM parsing
* Rewritten WASM parsing to avoid heap allocations
* Initial WASM extraction support
* Nicer assertion
* Drop obsolete comment
* Clarify that embedding the compiler version has shipped.
* Fixed section name for WASM
* Unified and more robust platform detection. Fixed wasm build process
* Initial WASM support
* More robust platform detection for picking the binary format
* Fix Windows CI to run both -msvc and -gnu
* Use the correct link.exe flag for preserving the specified symbol even if it is unused
* Fix Windows
* Fix tests on Rust 1.77
* Placate clippy
* Oopps, I meant components field
* Also remove the dependencies field if empty
* Use serde_json with order preservation feature to get a more compressible JSON after workarounds
* Work around cyclonedx-bom limitations to produce minified JSON
* Also record the dependency kind
* cyclonedx-bom: also record PURL
* Also write the dependency tree
* Clear the serial number in the minimal CycloneDX variant
* Prototype impl of auditable2cdx
* Fill in auditable2cdx dependencies
* Initial auditable2cdx boilerplace
* add #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
* Initial implementation of auditable-to-cyclonedx conversion
* Add the necessary dependencies to auditable-cyclonedx
* Initial dummy package for auditable-cyclonedx

- Update to version 0.6.2~0:

* Update the lockfile
* New releases of cargo-auditable and auditable-serde
* Use a separate project for the custom rustc path tests. Fixes intermittent test failures due to race conditions
* Revert 'add commit hashes to git sources'
* Fix cyclic dependency graph being encoded
* Revert 'An unsuccessful attempt to fix cycles caused by dev-dependencies'
* An unsuccessful attempt to fix cycles caused by dev-dependencies
* Fix typo
* Add comment
* Add a test for an issue with cyclic dependencies reported at https://github.com/rustsec/rustsec/issues/1043
* Fix auditable-serde example not building
* upgrade dependency miniz_oxide to 0.6.0
* fix formatting errors
* apply clippy lints for --all-features
* improve the internal docs and comments
* apply clippy lints
* add missing sources for one of test fixtures
* add commit hashes to git sources
* Run all tests on CI
* cargo fmt
* Run `cargo clean` in tests to get rid of stale binaries
* Fix date in changelog
* Populate changelog
* Bump auditable-info version in rust-audit-info
* Add auditable-info changelog
* Bump versions following cargo-lock bump
* auditable-serde: bump `cargo-lock` to v9
* switch to UNRELEASED
* Update CHANGELOG.md
* Print a better error if calling rustc fails
* Drop unused import
* placate Clippy
* Don't inject audit info if --print argument is passed to rustc
* Reflect the version change in Cargo.lock
* Remove space from keywords
* bump version to 0.6.1
* Fix date in changelog
* Update CHANGELOG.md
* Add publish=false
* Commit the generated manpage
* Add the code for generating a manpage; rather rudimentary so far, but it's a starting point
* Explain relation to supply chain attacks
* Add keywords to the Cargo manifest
* Revert 'generate a man page for cargo auditable'
* fix formatting
* fix review feedback, relocate file to under OUT_DIR, don't use anyhow and also commit the lock file
* generate a man page for cargo auditable
* Add Clippy suppression
* placate clippy
* commit Cargo.lock
* Sync to latest object file writing code from rustc
* Fix examples in docs
* Allow redundant field names
* Apply clippy suggestion: match -> if let
* Check for clippy and format in CI
* Apply clippy suggestions
* Run CI with --locked

- Update to version 0.6.0~0:

* README and documentation improvements
* Read the rustc path passed by Cargo; fixes #90
* Read location of Cargo from the environment variable Cargo sets for third-party subcommands
* Add a note on sccache version compatibility to CHANGELOG.md
* Panic on compilation commands where we fail to parse the arguments instead of silently ignoring the error
* Specifying the binary-scanning feature is no longer needed
* Pass options such as --offline to `cargo metadata`
* Pass on arguments from `cargo auditable` invocation to the rustc wrapper; prep work towards fixing #83
* Bump rust-audit-info to 0.5.2
* Bump auditable-serde version to 0.5.2
* Correctly fill in the source even in dependency entries when converting to cargo-lock data format
* Drop the roundtrip through str in semver::Version
* Release auditable-info 0.6.1
* Bump all the version requirements for things depending on auditable-info
* Fix audit_info_from_slice function signature

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 cargo-auditable package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299047

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0514-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: 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-2026-25727

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: 6.8

Threat Score: 3.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cargo-auditable, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 2/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25727

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0514-1

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