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openSUSE 16 Security Update : sudo (openSUSE-SU-2026:20604-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 310090

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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-2026:20604-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-35535: unhandled failure of `setuid`, `setgid` or `setgroups` calls during a mailer privilege drop allows for local privilege escalation (bsc#1261420).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261420

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35535

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 310090

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20604-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2026

Updated: 4/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-35535

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-policy-sudo-auth-self, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-policy-wheel-auth-self, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo-plugin-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sudo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:system-group-sudo

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: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-35535

IAVA: 2026-A-0312