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SUSE SLES15: Multiple Vulnerabilities (SUSE-RU-2026:5018-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 375386

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-RU-2026:5018-1 advisory.

 - Allow to bypass the strict tag initialization and length enforcement added in the fix for CVE-2026-34182 when the env variable OPENSSL_ALLOW_CMS_UNAUTHENTICATED_AEAD is defined and set to a non-zero value. (bsc#1281325)

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 libopenssl-3-devel, libopenssl3 and / or openssl-3 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1281325

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34182

http://www.nessus.org/u?59b1e886

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 375386

File Name: suse_RU-2026-5018-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

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: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.2

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-2026-34182

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:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-3

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: 11/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34182

SuSE: SUSE-RU-2026:5018-1