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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : helm (SUSE-SU-2026:1483-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 307885

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1483-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-55199: crafted JSON Schema can lead to out of memory (OOM) termination (bsc#1248093).
 - CVE-2026-35206: files written to unexpected directory via specially crafted Chart(bsc#1261938).

 Changes for helm:

 - Update to version 3.20.2

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 helm, helm-bash-completion, helm-fish-completion and / or helm-zsh-completion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248093

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261938

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-April/045696.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55199

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35206

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 307885

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1483-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2026

Updated: 4/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-35206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:helm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:helm-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:helm-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:helm-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: 4/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55199, CVE-2026-35206

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1483-1