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openSUSE 16 Security Update : gleam (openSUSE-SU-2026:21557-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 335044

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21557-1 advisory.

 Changes in gleam:

 - Update to 1.18.1:
 * CVE-2026-59247: insufficient verification of data authenticity allows a MITM adversary to substitute forged Hex package contents during dependency resolution (bsc#1272992)
 * Set minimum required Erlang version to 26
 * All features and bug fixes are extensively highlighted with examples in upstream's blog post at https://gleam.run/news/a-field-day-for-gleams-language-server/ and changelog at https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.18.1/CHANGELOG.md .
 Some of the highlights include:
 - A lot of new features for the LSP
 - Faster JavaScript using singletons
 - Deprecation of ambiguous pipe syntax
 - Path support in Git dependencies
 - Up to 13% faster compilation
 - Fixed various bugs in Erlang and JavaScript code generation.
 - Fixed several bugs in the float handling for the JavaScript target.
 - Fixed a bug in the generation of Erlang .app files.
 - Fixed a bug where the formatter would produce invalid code.
 - Fixed a bug in the TypeScript type definition generation.
 - Fixed a bug where the compiler would evaluate the numerator and denominator of a division in the wrong order.
 - Fixed a bug where gleam docs would not be generated.

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 gleam package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1272992

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59247

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 335044

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21557-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2026

Updated: 8/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59247

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gleam

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: 8/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59247