SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kubevirt-1.6 (SUSE-SU-2026:2783-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325999

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-2026:2783-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-9804: Symlink escape in the VMExport dir handler let an attacker controlling an exported PVC read sensitive files (TLS keys, tokens, service-account creds) from the exporter pod. (bsc#1266733)
- CVE-2025-14525: A VM reporting many guest-internal interfaces via the guest agent could flood VMI status and fill etcd (denial of service). Caps reported interfaces at 10. (bsc#1256434)
- CVE-2026-35469: resource-exhaustion in the SPDY/3 protocol implementation of github.com/moby/spdystream. (GHSA-pc3f-x583-g7j2,bsc#1262265)

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 kubevirt-1.6-manifests and / or kubevirt-1.6-virtctl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325999

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2783-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/9/2026

Updated: 7/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.28

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14525

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9804

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-35469

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubevirt-1.6-virtctl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubevirt-1.6-manifests, 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: 7/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14525, CVE-2026-35469, CVE-2026-9804

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2783-1

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