Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2774-1 advisory.
Release Notes Highlights:
- Update to SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5.1.4
* Added note about migration for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 on SSH managed minions
* Product Migration from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 to 16.0
* SUSE Liberty Linux 9.6 Support
* New API Endpoint - listMigrationTargetsWithChannels
* Debian 12 End-of-Life Notice
* SUSE Registry URL Change
* Security fixes:
CVE-2026-34986, CVE-2026-41602, CVE-2026-39821, CVE-2026-42198 CVE-2022-21698, CVE-2026-40179, CVE-2026-42151, CVE-2026-42154 CVE-2026-28374, CVE-2026-28376, CVE-2026-28379, CVE-2026-28380 CVE-2026-28383, CVE-2026-33376, CVE-2026-33377, CVE-2026-33378 CVE-2026-33380, CVE-2026-33381
* Bugs mentioned:
bsc#1226578, bsc#1234567, bsc#1238890, bsc#1242916, bsc#1245107 bsc#1247707, bsc#1248699, bsc#1249243, bsc#1253032, bsc#1257583 bsc#1257894, bsc#1258041, bsc#1258079, bsc#1258144, bsc#1258382 bsc#1258816, bsc#1259087, bsc#1259230, bsc#1259261, bsc#1259474 bsc#1259479, bsc#1259482, bsc#1259521, bsc#1259590, bsc#1259591 bsc#1259700, bsc#1259739, bsc#1259787, bsc#1259960, bsc#1260031 bsc#1260614, bsc#1260806, bsc#1261305, bsc#1261307, bsc#1261327 bsc#1261631, bsc#1261723, bsc#1261753, bsc#1261841, bsc#1261902 bsc#1262090, bsc#1262285, bsc#1262460, bsc#1262471, bsc#1262492 bsc#1262595, bsc#1262708, bsc#1262720, bsc#1262761, bsc#1263814 bsc#1263841, bsc#1264149, bsc#1264234, bsc#1264256, bsc#1264966 bsc#1265134, bsc#1265319, bsc#1265358, bsc#1265975, bsc#1266012 bsc#1262950, bsc#1263501, bsc#1266600, bsc#1266556, bsc#1264174 bsc#1262222, bsc#1263986, bsc#1263987, bsc#1265290, bsc#1265289 bsc#1265288, bsc#1265287, bsc#1265286, bsc#1265285, bsc#1265284 bsc#1265283, bsc#1265282, bsc#1265281, bsc#1269253, bsc#1269534
Container images and uyuni-tools changes:
server-attestation-image:
- Version 5.1.15
* Image rebuilt to the newest version with updated dependencies for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5.1.4
server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image:
- Version 5.1.14
* Image rebuilt to the newest version with updated dependencies for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5.1.4
server-image:
- Version 5.1.15
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Added mozilla-nss-sysinit to Dockerfile required for FIPS (bsc#1247707)
* Do not get repositories from SCC in the server container (bsc#1242916)
* Added 'susemanager-tools', 'susemanager' and 'susemanager-tools-salt' packages to server-image
server-migration-14-16-image:
- Version 5.1.14
* Image rebuilt to the newest version with updated dependencies for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5.1.4
server-postgresql-image:
- Version 5.1.13
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Added needed pg_hba rules on upgrade (bsc#1262492, bsc#1264149)
server-saline-image:
- Version 5.1.14
* Use python3*-tornado6 package to make it working with Python 3.11
uyuni-tools:
- Version 5.1.29-0 Check backup status only after database is started (bsc#1262492)
- Version 5.1.28-0
* Remove waitForTraefik function (bsc#1261902)
* Fix inspect: missing registry for db image (bsc#1259739)
* Preserve hub replicas during upgrade (bsc#1262708)
* Stop automatically unhealthy container
* Ignore spacewalk-service stop return code.
* Use correct CA for Report DB (bsc#1260806)
* Do not call podman healthcheck run to wait for pods to be ready (bsc#1266012)
The following packages are underlying build dependencies and system components used by the containers:
cobbler:
- Added the distro signature for rhel10 (bsc#1265134)
liberate-formula:
- Version 0.1.4
* No customer facing changes
- Version 0.1.3
* Liberate formula support for EL10 (bsc#1265975)
prometheus-exporters-formula:
- Version 1.4.3
* Added support for Python 3.13
* Drop migrate_formula_data script as it is obsolete
prometheus-postgres_exporter:
- CVE-2022-21698: Replace github.com/prometheus/client_golang with version 1.11.1 (bsc#1248699)
saline:
- Update to version 2026.05.18:
* Explicitly set port number for Prometheus target
* Fixed the issue of using non-vendored tornado with Python 3.11
salt:
- Use non vendored tornado with Python 3.11 (bsc#1257583, bsc#1259700)
saltboot-formula:
- Update to version 1.1.0
* When autoselecting saltboot device, ignore cd/dvd (bsc#1259960)
spacecmd:
- Version 5.1.14-0
* Update translation strings
spacewalk-backend:
- Version 5.1.17-0
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Kickstart profile for RHEL 8 requires venv-salt-minion instead of salt-minion (bsc#1259474)
* security(checksums): drop md5 and sha1 from checksum choices (bsc#1234567)
* Use PBKDF2-SHA256 (600000 iterations) for new password hashes; verify legacy SHA-256 crypt(3) hashes transparently
spacewalk-java:
- Version 5.1.28-0
* Check access rights on two formula API calls (bsc#1269253)
* Sanitize uploaded image name (bsc#1269534)
- Version 5.1.26-0
* Added listMigrationTargetsWithChannels endpoint to return the valid migration targets channels (jsc#SUMA-320)
* Fixed CSV export failure on system Details > Custom Info page
* Added support for migration from SLES 15 to SLES 16
* Minor UI improvements and fixed spinning icon glitch in Admin Setup Wizard
* Updated the tab label for eligible subscription systems (bsc#1249243)
* Fixed missing field labels in the Create User form.
(bsc#1259591)
* Enhance buttons readability and consistency across the product
* Fixed missing translations (bsc#1259787)
* Fixed hub SCC forwarding registration credential filter (bsc#1260031)
* Sanitize inputs to avoid injection in rhn_conf of http proxy settings inputs (bsc#1245107)
* Move Salt > Remote Commands to its own RBAC namespace (bsc#1261305)
* Make OIDC JWKS initialization startup-safe
* Sync package removal permissions in packages API with the Web UI (bsc#1261327)
* Run ANALYZE asynchronously after CLM alignment to avoid deadlocks (bsc#1261753)
* Fixed enforcement of consecutive chars in password policy (bsc#1262761)
* Use salt's network module if host or nslookup are not installed (bsc#1262720)
* Fixed Remote Commands hang on direct hostname (bsc#1226578)
* Fixed Python SyntaxWarning for invalid escape sequence '\s' in RHUI extract repo data script (bsc#1262595)
* Added 'unpushed' to AdvisoryStatus enum to handle EPEL errata with unpushed status (bsc#1264234)
* Kickstart profile for RHEL 8 requires venv-salt-minion instead of salt-minion (bsc#1259474)
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Remove validation of packages in kickstart profiles which are not supported anymore (bsc#1259474)
* Numeric branch names should not be stored in double format (bsc#1258382)
* Added missing pxeeventfailed notification message
* Do not add non-FQDN hostnames to the proxy fqdn list (bsc#1263841)
* Use supscription matcher output for subscription expiration warning (bsc#1257894)
* Fixed Oval data sync for ubuntu 26.04 (bsc#1265319)
* Recognize PBKDF2-SHA256 hashes alongside legacy SHA-256 crypt(3) in the Java password check helpers
* security(saml2): default signature algorithm to rsa-sha256 (bsc#1234567)
* security(tls): remove TLSv1/TLSv1.1, allow TLSv1.3 for SMTP (bsc#1234567)
* Fixed CSRFTokenValidator FIPS compatibility by using platform-default SecureRandom (bsc#1247707)
* Fixed conflicting cobbler system migrations
spacewalk-web:
- Version 5.1.21-0
* UI changes to support migration from SLES 15 to SLES 16
* Fixed issue causing a blank tab to appear in the Image Building Details page (bsc#1253032)
* Minor UI improvements and fixed spinning icon glitch in Admin Setup Wizard
* Fixed an issue where the 'Create Token' modal could become unresponsive when opened
* Fixed an issue causing all existing tokens to be deleted in a loop
* Improved visibility of all parent rows in permissions table
* Enhance buttons placement for a more intuitive experience
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Align subscription matching page warning with dashboard warning for expiring subscriptions (bsc#1257894)
* Added missing fragment import (bsc#1264966)
subscription-matcher:
- Version 0.44
* Fixed 2 missing part numbers (bsc#1264256)
susemanager:
- Version 5.1.17-0
* Added SUSE LibertyLinux 9.6 x86_64 bootstrap repository definition
* Removed spacewalk-diskcheck enablement
* Use correct CA for Report DB (bsc#1260806)
* Relicensed mgr-salt-ssh under Apache-2.0 and move it to a separated package named susemanager-tools-salt
susemanager-build-keys:
- Added Nvidia Cuda Tools key Added: nvidia-cudatools-9CD0A493D42D0685.asc
susemanager-docs_en:
- Updated the supported features table in the Client Configuration Guide to include Red Hat Linux Enterprise 10 and clones
- Added documentation on space usage percentage on the server and db container which can be set using DISKCHECKALERT and DISKTHRESHOLD
- Added Code 16 to Monitoring documentation (bsc#1263814)
- Added documentation for deleting SCAP scan results to Administration Guide (bsc#1262471)
- Rephrased instructions for RBAC in Administration Guide (bsc#1258079)
- Added troubleshooting section for BTRFS to Administration Guide (bcs#1258816)
- Removed mentions of Leap 15.5 and 15.4 and specified SUSE requiring general or LTS support in Client Configuration Guide (bsc#1262285)
- Added information about availability of SLE 16 and SL Micro 6.2 support in the product versions 5.1.2 and later (bsc#1260614)
- Removed mention of CIS profile (bsc#1262460)
- Corrected path for Salt minion in Retail Guide (#1262090)
- Added explanation for translating mgradm arguments to YAML in Installation and Upgrade Guide (bsc#1258144)
- Removed Google Cloud Compute from PAYG documentation (bsc#1261631)
- Added link to proxy creation from client to an existing document in Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Updated features table for EL 10 based distributions
- Document Debian 13
- Added support for Open Enterprise Server 25.4
- Clarified how to get PTF images in air-gapped setup in Installation and Upgrade Guide (bsc#1261307)
- SUSE Multi-Linux Support does not support autoinstallation (bsc#1259261)
- Added instructions about accessing git repositories when building images to Administration Guide
- Added online database backup instructions to Administration Guide
- Fixed comamnd for product deployment in Installation and Upgrade Guide (bsc#1259479)
- Added online database backup instructions
susemanager-schema:
- Version 5.1.19-0
* Added the RBAC mapping for listMigrationTargetsWithChannels end point (jsc#SUMA-320)
* Added index on rhnPackage (checksum_id) (bsc#1258041)
* Move Salt > Remote Commands to its own RBAC namespace (bsc#1261305)
* Sync package removal permissions in packages API with the Web UI (bsc#1261327)
* Added 'unpushed' to rhn_errata_adv_status_ck constraint to allow importing EPEL errata with unpushed status (bsc#1264234)
* Healthcheck on disk usage based on taskomatic (bsc#1238890)
* Added missing indexes for channels and tokens (bsc#1259590)
* Increase source_url on table rhncontentsource (bsc#1259230)
susemanager-sls:
- Version 5.1.25-0
* Added salt states to support migration from SLES 15 to SLES 16
* Ignore podman interfaces when resolving FQDNs (bsc#1262720)
* Fixed GPG key import on first key deploy (bsc#1259482)
* Use either ansible-core or ansible packages for Ansible Control node, prefer ansible-core (bsc#1259087)
* Fixed CPU reporting for ppc64le clients (bsc#1259521)
* Fixed refresh of virtual instance information (bsc#1261723)
susemanager-sync-data:
- Version 5.1.10-0
* Added missing RES-EMS channel family (bsc#1265358)
- Version 5.1.9-0
* Added SUSE Liberty Linux 9.6 x86_64 product entries
uyuni-common-libs:
- Version 5.1.6-0
* security(checksums): drop md5 and sha1 from checksum choices (bsc#1234567)
* Replaced deprecated inspect.getargspec with EAFP usedforsecurity detection
uyuni-reportdb-schema:
- version 5.1.7-0
* Increased url on table repository (bsc#1259230)
uyuni-setup-reportdb:
- Version 5.1.5-0
* Fixed delete of a reportdb user with uyuni-setup-reportdb-user (bsc#1261841)
virtual-host-gatherer:
- Version 1.0.31-0
* Dropped SUSECloud module as not longer maintainednor used
- Version 1.0.30-0
* No customer facing changes
How to apply this update:
1. Log in as root user to the SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Server.
2. Upgrade mgradm and mgrctl.
3. If you are in a disconnected environment, upgrade the image packages.
4. Reboot the system.
5. Run `mgradm upgrade podman` which will use the default image tags.
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 packages.
Plugin Details
File Name: suse_SU-2026-2774-1.nasl
Agent: unix
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
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgradm-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgradm-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgradm-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgradm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgrctl-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgrctl-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgrctl-zsh-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mgrctl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-attestation-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-migration-14-16-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-postgresql-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-aarch64-server-saline-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-attestation-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-migration-14-16-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-postgresql-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-ppc64le-server-saline-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-attestation-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-migration-14-16-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-postgresql-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-s390x-server-saline-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-attestation-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-migration-14-16-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-postgresql-image, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suse-multi-linux-manager-5.1-x86_64-server-saline-image
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-21698, CVE-2026-28374, CVE-2026-28376, CVE-2026-28379, CVE-2026-28380, CVE-2026-28383, CVE-2026-33376, CVE-2026-33377, CVE-2026-33378, CVE-2026-33380, CVE-2026-33381, CVE-2026-34986, CVE-2026-39821, CVE-2026-40179, CVE-2026-41602, CVE-2026-42151, CVE-2026-42154, CVE-2026-42198
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2774-1