openSUSE 16 Security Update : elemental-register (openSUSE-SU-2026:20920-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 320418

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-2026:20920-1 advisory.

This update for elemental-register fixes the following issue

- CVE-2026-33186: google.golang.org/grpc: authorization bypass due to improper validation of the HTTP/2:
path pseudo- header (bsc#1260277).

Changes:

- Update to v1.9.2:
* 71d1fb9c Local node labels (#984)
* ce6acda9 Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.55.0 includes fixes for:
- bsc#1266789 bsc#1265921 bsc#1267197 bsc#1267168 bsc#1251679
* 060958b7 Bump golangci/golangci-lint-action
* 3b4b6699 use a real UUID for the machine registration ID
* d33faa01 Bump google.golang.org/grpc library (bsc#1260277 CVE-2026-33186)
* 6dceb411 Deterministic endpoints for MachineRegistrations (#975)
- Update to v1.9.1:
* b42116d4 Ensure the machine inventory selector keeps looking for a match
- Update to v1.9.0:
- Update to v1.9.0-rc1:
* 9952ebe1 Update libraries based on dependency scan
* 5e128c5d Adapt OBS packages to a 1.9 version to coexist with 1.8 version
* f88219af Fix cluster api version in test environment
* ad937279 Run 'make generate' to recreate generated code and vendor folder
* 15bb505f Bump to cluster API libraries to v1.12.x
* 63369022 Bump test environment tools in Makefile
* 7b464802 Run 'make vendor' to recreate vendor folder
* 879b3464 Bump yip
* aeda10ac Fix unit tests after bumping libraries
* 33dcb61a Run 'make vendor' to recreate vendor folder
* 0ccd96af Bump wrangler from v2 to v3
* ff0190c4 Run 'make generate' to renew all generated code and config files
* b28d2f08 Bump controller generator to version 0.19
* 0bf7dc32 Update controller runtime options
* 549e720d Run 'make vendor' to recreate vendor folder
* 3f0f27e0 Updated cluster-api, steve, rancher/apis, client-go and k8s/api to the level they were at rancher v2.13
* 49ebf0b7 Update headers to 2026
* fd13ba92 Update questions to include SL Micro 6.2

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 elemental-register and / or elemental-support packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 320418

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20920-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:elemental-register, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:elemental-support, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0

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: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33186

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