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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : helm (SUSE-SU-2026:2049-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 316846

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-2026:2049-1 advisory.

 This update for helm fixes the following issues

 Security issues:

 - CVE-2026-33814: golang.org/x/net/http2: infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE (bsc#1265758).
 - CVE-2026-41888: github.com/distribution/distribution/v3: tag deletion bypasses the storage.delete.enabled configuration (bsc#1265428).

 Non security issue:

 - Fix packages for %suse_version bump (jsc#PED-15794).
 - Update to version 3.21.0

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/1265428

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1265758

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc4601eb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33814

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41888

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 316846

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2049-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2026

Updated: 5/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41888

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-41888

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2049-1