SUSE SLES15 Security Update : yq (SUSE-SU-2026:2096-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 317653

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2096-1 advisory.

This update for yq fixes the following issues

- CVE-2025-22872: golang.org/x/net/html: incorrectly interpreted tags can cause content to be placed wrong scope during DOM construction (bsc#1241719).
- CVE-2025-47911: golang.org/x/net/html: various algorithms with quadratic complexity when parsing HTML documents (bsc#1251339).
- CVE-2025-58190: golang.org/x/net/html: excessive memory consumption by `html.ParseFragment` when processing specially crafted input (bsc#1251540).
- CVE-2026-33814: golang.org/x/net/http2: infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE (bsc#1266248).

Changes for yq:

- update to v4.53.2

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 yq package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 317653

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2096-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/29/2026

Updated: 5/29/2026

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22872

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yq, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22872, CVE-2025-47911, CVE-2025-58190, CVE-2026-33814

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2096-1

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