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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libinput (SUSE-SU-2026:2530-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 323085

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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-2026:2530-1 advisory.

 This update for libinput fixes the following issues

 - CVE-2026-50265,CVE-2026-50292: crafted uinput devices can lead to local privilege escalation (bsc#1267852).

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 libinput-devel, libinput-tools, libinput-udev and / or libinput10 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1267852

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50292

http://www.nessus.org/u?937b5d6f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 323085

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2530-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2026

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.08

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libinput-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libinput-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libinput-udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libinput10

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: 6/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-50292

IAVA: 2026-A-0554

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2530-1