SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2026:3205-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329293

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3205-1 advisory.

This update for wget fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-15146: unvalidated IP address in an FTP PASV response can lead to server-side request forgery (bsc#1271320).
- CVE-2026-58470: server-controlled `Content-Range` header values can cause an integer overflow in `parse_content_range()` (bsc#1271034).
- CVE-2026-58472: crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding can lead to a heap buffer overflow (bsc#1271036).

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 wget package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329293

File Name: suse_SU-2026-3205-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/24/2026

Updated: 7/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.89

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-58472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

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:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-58470

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget

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: 7/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-15146, CVE-2026-58470, CVE-2026-58472

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:3205-1

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