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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openCryptoki (SUSE-SU-2026:0481-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299049

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0481-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-23893: Privilege Escalation or Data Exposure via Symlink Following (bsc#1257116).

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 openCryptoki, openCryptoki-64bit and / or openCryptoki-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257116

http://www.nessus.org/u?017c1d06

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23893

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299049

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0481-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2026

Updated: 2/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-23893

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki-64bit, 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: 2/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-23893

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0481-1