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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2026:1029-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 303783

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1029-1 advisory.

 - Security issues fixed:

 * CVE-2025-67724: Fixed missing validation of supplied reason phrase (bsc#1254903)
 * CVE-2025-67725: Fixed DoS via malicious HTTP request (bsc#1254905)
 * CVE-2025-67726: Fixed HTTP header parameter parsing algorithm (bsc#1254904)
 * CVE-2025-13836: Set a safe limit to http.client response read (bsc#1254400)

 - Made syntax in httputil_test compatible with Python 3.6
 - Fixed KeyError in postgres module with PostgreSQL 17 (bsc#1254325)
 - Use internal deb classes instead of external aptsource lib
 - Improved wheel key.finger call (bsc#1240532)
 - Improved utils.find_json function (bsc#1246130)
 - Extended warn_until period to 2027

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240532

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246130

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254325

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254903

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254904

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254905

http://www.nessus.org/u?383a75cc

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13836

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-67724

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-67725

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-67726

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 303783

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1029-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2026

Updated: 3/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-67724

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13836

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-proxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-salt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-master, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-standalone-formulas-configuration, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-cloud, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-syndic, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-salt, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:salt-fish-completion

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: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13836, CVE-2025-67724, CVE-2025-67725, CVE-2025-67726

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1029-1