Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLED15: xdg-desktop-portal / xdg-desktop-portal-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:2712-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 324838

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2712-1 advisory.

 This update for xdg-desktop-portal fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2026-40354: File deletion via symlink attack (bsc#1262045).

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 xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-devel and / or xdg-desktop-portal-lang packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262045

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-June/047724.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40354

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 324838

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2712-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.65

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xdg-desktop-portal-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xdg-desktop-portal-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xdg-desktop-portal, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 6/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40354

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2712-1