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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : jq (SUSE-SU-2026:0931-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 303145

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0931-1 advisory.

 This update for jq fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2025-9403: test suite assertion failure in JSON parsing consistency validation (bsc#1248600).

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 jq, libjq-devel and / or libjq1 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248600

http://www.nessus.org/u?46821666

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9403

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 303145

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0931-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2026

Updated: 3/20/2026

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: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9403

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjq-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjq1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:jq

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: 3/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9403

IAVB: 2025-B-0188

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0931-1