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openSUSE 16 Security Update : php-composer2 (openSUSE-SU-2026:20670-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 313630

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20670-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-67746: ANSI control characters injection in terminal output of various Composer commands via attacker controlled remote sources (bsc#1255768).
 - CVE-2026-40176: arbitrary command injection via malicious Perforce repository definition (bsc#1262254).
 - CVE-2026-40261: arbitrary command injection via malicious Perforce source reference/url (bsc#1262255).

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 php-composer2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255768

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262254

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262255

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-67746

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40176

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40261

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 313630

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20670-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2026

Updated: 5/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-67746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php-composer2

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: 5/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-67746, CVE-2026-40176, CVE-2026-40261