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SUSE SLES16 Security Update : shibboleth-sp (SUSE-SU-2026:22854-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 330331

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:22854-1 advisory.

 This update for shibboleth-sp fixes the following issue

 - CVE-2025-9943: SQL injection in the ID attribute of the SAML response when the replay cache of the Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) is configured to use an SQL database as storage service (bsc#1249394).

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 libshibsp-lite12, libshibsp12 and / or shibboleth-sp packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1249394

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9943

http://www.nessus.org/u?79c6201a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 330331

File Name: suse_SU-2026-22854-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2026

Updated: 7/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.66

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9943

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libshibsp-lite12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libshibsp12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:shibboleth-sp

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: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9943

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:22854-1