openSUSE 16 Security Update : cockpit-machines, cockpit (openSUSE-SU-2026:20244-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 299654

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20244-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-13465: Update the lodash dependencie to avoid prototype pollution. (bsc#1257324)

Changes in cockpit-machines:

- Update to 346
* 346
- Performance improvements
- Translation updates
* 345
- New virtual machines don't get SPICE graphics anymore
- Support for network port forwarding
- Bug fixes and translation updates

- Update to 344
* 344
- Port forwarding for user session VMs
- Shutdown and restart action
- Faster startup
* 343
- Memory usage now shows numbers reported by the guest (RHEL-116731)

- Update to 342
* 342
- Bug fixes and translation updates
* 341
- Improved UX for Disks and Network interface tables
- Bug fixes and translation updates
* 340
- Use exclusive VNC connections with Remote resizing

- Update to 339
* 339
- Serial consoles now keep their content and stay alive
- No longer copies qemu.conf values into VM definitions
* 338
- Translation and dependency updates
- Detachable VNC console

- Update to 337
* 337
- Bug fixes and translation updates
* 336
- Graphical VNC and serial consoles improvements
- Control VNC console resizing and scaling
- Bug fixes and translation updates
* 335
- Bug fixes and translation updates
* 334
- Bug fixes and translation updates

Changes in cockpit:

- Update to 354
* changes since 351
- 354
* Convert documentation to AsciiDoc
* Work around Firefox 146/147 bug (rhbz#2422331)
* Bug fixes
- 353
* Networking: Suggest prefix length and gateway address
* Bug fixes and translation updates
- 352
* Shown a warning if the last shutdown/reboot was unclean
* Bug fixes and translation updates

- Update to 351
* Changes since 349
- 351
* Firewall ports can be deleted individually
- 350
* networking: fix renaming of bridges and other groups (RHEL-117883)
* bridge: fix OpenSSH_10.2p1 host key detection

- Update to 349
* Changes since 346
- 349
* Package manifests: add any test
* Bug fixes and translation updates
- 348
* Bug fixes and translation updates
- 347
* Site-specific branding support

- Update to 346
* Changes since 344
- 346
* Support branding Cockpit pages
* Storage: Support for Stratis V2 pools
- 345
* Translation and dependency updates
* Shorter IPv6 addresses
* IPv6 addresses for WireGuard

- Update to 344
* Changes since 340
- 344
* Bug fixes and translation updates
- 343
* login: Improve error message for unsupported shells
* cockpit: Handle file access issues with files in machines.d
* Translation updates
- 342
* systemd: ensure update() is called at least once for tuned-dialog
* Translation updates
- 341
* services: show link to podman page for quadlets
* Bug fixes and translation updates

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 299654

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20244-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/20/2026

Updated: 2/20/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Threat Score: 5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-selinux, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-kdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-ws, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-ws-selinux, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-bridge, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-firewalld, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-storaged, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-networkmanager, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-system, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-packagekit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cockpit-machines

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: 2/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13465

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