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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cloud-init (SUSE-SU-2026:1980-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 315243

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1980-1 advisory.

 - Update to version 25.1.3 (bsc#1245403, CVE-2024-11584, CVE-2024-6174)
 - Update to version 25.1.1 (bsc#1239715, jsc#PED-8680, bsc#1228414, bsc#1237764)
 - Make sure a directory exists, if not create it, before writing in that location (bsc#1236720)
 - rsyslog warning, '~' is deprecated (bsc#1170154)
 - Support python 3.13 (bsc#1233649)
 - Move fdupes call back to %install (bsc#1214169)
 - Re-ship python dependencies, those have no source changes.

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/1170154

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214169

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228414

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233649

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236720

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237764

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239715

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245403

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-May/046567.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11584

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6174

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 315243

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1980-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 5/19/2026

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11584

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-jsonpointer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-pyserial, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-configobj, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-jsonpatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-passlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cloud-init-config-suse

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: 5/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11584, CVE-2024-6174

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1980-1