SUSE SLES15 Security Update : amazon-cloudwatch-agent (SUSE-SU-2026:4662-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 366070

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4662-1 advisory.

This update for amazon-cloudwatch-agent fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2026-63209: github.com/klauspost/compress: signed integer overflow in s2.NewDict() allows an attacker to bypass repeat index validation and cause a process crash (bsc#1283594).

Changes for amazon-cloudwatch-agent:

Update to version 1.300073.0

* [Agent] Add Google Cloud support for GCE and GKE by @jefchien in (#2255), (#2258) and (#2260)
* [Agent] Add opt-in self-telemetry endpoint for agent metrics by @movence in (#2246)
* [ContainerInsights] Add KEDA and Karpenter metrics scraping by @Paamicky in (#2250)
* [ContainerInsights] Add watch_replicaset toggle to disable the ReplicaSet informer by @movence in (#2246)
* [Metrics/JMX] Format JVM metric units for Tomcat by @Paamicky in (#2235)
* [ContainerInsights] Fix EKS OTel Container Insights log delivery and stabilize cluster-scoped metric identity by @sky333999 in (#2249)
* [ContainerInsights] Only resolve cluster name when running in Kubernetes by @Paamicky in (#2259)
* [Logs] Prevent high log throughput from stalling log collection while recording file read progress by @lorespiz in (#2253)
- Update github.com/klauspost/compress to v1.18.7 (bsc#1283594, CVE-2026-63209)

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 amazon-cloudwatch-agent package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 366070

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4662-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/15/2026

Updated: 10/15/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-63209

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:amazon-cloudwatch-agent

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: 10/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-63209

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4662-1

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